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Asked what South Africa requires today, Cape Businessman Jannie Momberg replies, "It may sound crazy, but what we need for the next ten years is enlightened dictatorship. Not for the black population, but for the whites. I think we're going to have to force through certain things against the whites for the sake of the country." If he were the President, says Momberg, "I'd bring Chief Buthelezi into my Cabinet. I'd scrap the bloody three-way Parliament and bring the whites, the Indians and the coloreds into one body, and then I'd look for a federal...
...visible on college campuses, where, in raising their fists against apartheid, demonstrators have also raised memories of the '60s. At the University of California, Berkeley, about 200 protesters staged a sleep-in vigil in April that culminated in 159 arrests. Harvard has seen a dozen demonstrations, including a silent ten-day vigil in front of the college's spiritual center, the statue of Founder John Harvard. At Cornell, students built a settlement of mock South African shanties and lived inside them until a fire swept through the area and the local fire department declared the huts a hazard...
...document at the Copenhagen meeting. But in Nairobi, the U.S. seemed determined, if possible, to lend its imprimatur to the conference's concluding report. Said Delegate Reagan before the final vote: "My No. 1 concern is to have a document adopted by consensus that will give a legacy for ten or 15 years...
...weather maps and added more charts and sidebars. Though most editors contend that their papers were moving in that direction anyway, some acknowledge that USA Today blazed the path. "Editors are now aware that you can get a lot of information into a chart or graph rather than a ten-or 15-inch story," says Larry Tarleton, news managing editor of the Dallas Times Herald. Says Michael Keegan, assistant managing editor for art at the Washington Post: "Its greatest influence is on design. A lot of editors are saying, 'This is good. It's clear. We can do this...
...time the grim reality that AIDS is spreading unabated, inevitably striking the famous and the familiar. As of July 22, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta had recorded 11,871 U.S. cases, including 5,917 deaths. Most alarming, the total number of cases continues to double every ten months. So far, 73% of those stricken by the disease have been homosexual or bisexual men, 17% intravenous drug users and 1% hemophiliacs. But the rest of the victims are people from all walks of life, contaminated perhaps through blood transfusions or through sexual contact with infected prostitutes, addicts...