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...political opportunists are sometimes little better than the murderers. On one side, radicals scream "one settler, one bullet." On the other, reactionaries prepare themselves to overthrow any popularly elected government. As these two groups glare at each other from opposite sides of the shotgun and crossbow, the death toll climbs...
...realized: neither Israel nor the P.L.O. can destroy each other. Or that moment arrives when two groups realize they do not have the wherewithal to defeat each other but can actually become stronger if they combine resources. South African whites cannot suppress the blacks without exacting a death toll they cannot tolerate; neither can the blacks shoot their way to power. By joining hands in a multiracial transition council, they can lift the international sanctions that have beggared them both. Such realizations come hard, over a long arc of years, after all attempts to demolish the enemy are done...
Ideologues and historians will long debate the role that sanctions played in bringing an end to the white-dominated state, but there is no doubt the ban took a heavy economic toll. Most member countries of the United Nations levied formal bans against South African investment, prohibitions that were buttressed in the U.S. by similar bans on the part of 179 localities and states. Even after George Bush proclaimed the formal end of U.S. sanctions in 1991, many of those strictures remained in place. Countless private firms also decided to wait until they received an official go-ahead from...
...level of factional violence, most of it black against black. Only a day after the pact on the transitional council was reached, another random outbreak shattered the night in Johannesburg. In two separate attacks, gunmen with automatic weapons sprayed buses loaded with homeward-bound black commuters, killing 21. The toll of factional violence has reached 1,500 deaths since...
...investigation is unlikely to be completedby the time of the Evening With Champions showthis fall. Already, however, the investigation hastaken a personal toll on Sword...