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...government's recent concessions to black militancy, like the decision to allow Soweto residents to purchase outright more than half of the township's houses (for about $1,500 apiece). They were there simply to work and be left alone. When the activists began to threaten them for refusing to strike, threw a couple of Zulu workers off a train and actually set fire to one of the Zulu hostels, the migrant workers erupted in fury-and Soweto's "Zulu...
...nations justify torture? The most common argument is that the practice is an unfortunate but indispensable means of combatting lawless elements that threaten the security of the state, especially terrorist extremists. The argument draws some support from the reckless brutality of recent terrorist movements and from the massive Communist threat-at least as it is perceived in many countries. "Nobody wants to be called a torturer," says one senior Argentine officer. "The word stinks of cowardice. But nobody ever gave away important information because a gentleman came up to him and said: 'Please tell me what you know...
Furthermore, Saint Laurent's stiff, billowing materials-though more flattering than the currently fashionable figure-revealing knit fabrics-threaten to engulf the small and puff up the large woman. The extravagant ornamentation and expensive bulk will have to be pared away by the manufacturers who will make unauthorized, mass-produced copies. But, as New York Designer Diane von Furstenberg noted, "Duplicated, it will look cheap...
...expected to employ another familiar Deep South form, the perfective done, as in "he done did it." Between now and November, moreover, his audiences are not apt to hear him describe his opponent, as some Plains folk might, as "a sorry piece of plunder" or threaten to "knock the bark off' him or talk of getting "mad as a puffed toad...
...playground. There's no sex appeal in that." Wrote Columnist Jim Miller in the Brooklyn church weekly the Tablet: "It is a whole cultural style and delivery that is foreign to people who are not rural, Southern fundamentalists. Ford is a known factor who does not threaten [Catholics] culturally...