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Many who claim to oppose violence say that the impetus for change in South Africa must come from peaceful, moderate groups of all races. Organized, multi-racial, non-violent resistance did exist at the beginning of the current phase of unrest in the form of the United Democratic Front (UDF), which represented millions of people in more than 600 community, church and political associations across South Africa. Within the last year, the leaders of the UDF have been rounded up and arrested. They face charges of treason...
...attitude toward the debt crisis was that foreign countries should solve their problems by adopting austerity measures and paying off their staggering loans. As a result, such countries as Mexico, Brazil and Argentina were required to adopt tough economic policies that ran the risk of setting off severe social unrest. The new U.S. approach recognizes that borrowers will remain at the brink of collapse unless they can rev up their economic growth. Said IMF Managing Director Jacques de Larosiere: "The debtor countries must grow out of debt." To do so, they will need even more cash infusions. The plan that...
...certain extent, Baker's moves have been dictated by necessity. He came to recognize that the Latin debtors needed more help than they were getting. It was hardly good policy to push austerity programs that fostered social unrest in Latin America at a time when the U.S. was fighting Communist- backed revolutionaries in the same area. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, contending that the monstrous debts pose a grave threat to South - America's democracies, has called for "the contemporary equivalent of the Marshall Plan." Kissinger praised Baker's plan as a "major departure," but cautioned, "I feel that...
...debtor nations have come to realize that their people are paying a high price for fiscal prudence. Government budget cuts have led to increased unemployment and poverty, which in turn has sparked anger and unrest. Last August more than 100,000 labor union members paraded through downtown Buenos Aires to protest the government's compliance with IMF austerity measures. Read one giant banner: PEACE, BREAD, WORK AND TO HELL WITH...
...Black South Africans understandably lose faith in the effectiveness of the non-violent philosophies of Boesak, Tutu and the rest, younger activists like Stephen Tshewete are gaining greater followings. A former prisoner who has urged that township unrest be brought into white areas, Tshewete's impassioned pleas are becoming increasingly popular. If moderates who want peaceful change are being thrown in jail, youths are saying to themselves, why should they continue to limit their tactics...