Word: talking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Apartheid doesn't seem real until you are forced to recognize it; the 18 million blacks who live in South Africa barely intrude on the white outsider's consciousness, until you hear a liberal white South African talk about the boy who tends the garden and realize the boy is 50 years old. Or a friendly Afrikaaner tells you, "We built this country," adding proudly, "If it wasn't for us, there would be nothing here but huts"--refusing to recognize that it was cheap black labor that did the building. Or a liberal white says, "Really...
...bantustan salary as a leader of the bantustan Kwazulu. Nominally he has a lot of supporters, but I think his position is eroding every day. He's in the position [Bishop Abel] Muzerewa was in Rhodesia a year ago. Open that society up, and let them all talk freely--let Mandela come off Robben Island prison tomorrow and say that Buthelezi is a no-no, which he would--and Buthelezi's support would melt like the snow in summer...
...When people are doing things similar enough so they can talk with one another," Gilbert says, "they are doing things where they can compete." He feels that it is important for the groups to pursue the same aims independently, saying, "There is no way of knowing which way is better...
Listen Carm, I want to talk to you about this week's game between us. Could you turn down the T.V. first, please? What's that? It's not the television, it's game films of my team? Sounds like "Romper Room" to me. What's that? Hey Carm, that analogy is really uncalled...
...announced that it would expand the size of five Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank. That decision had given Egyptian President Anwar Sadat a strong excuse for pulling out of the negotiations if he had wanted to do so. Obviously he did not, even though Begin continued to talk defiantly, even provocatively, about Israel's goals. Accepting this year's Family of Man award from the New York Council of Churches, the Premier once again challenged the U.S. (and Arab) view that East Jerusalem is occupied land. "Jerusalem," he said, "is one city, indivisible, the eternal capital...