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Meanwhile, the government is also being criticized for the continuing unrest along its northern border with Lebanon. A suicide car bomber drove into an Israeli armored patrol in southern Lebanon last week, wounding two Israelis and killing one Lebanese civilian. Israel quickly retaliated with an air strike on the headquarters of a radical Lebanese group that has claimed responsibility for seven car-bomb attacks on Israeli positions. Peres is said to be ready to adopt stronger antiterrorist measures. "There is no place for incitement and hysteria," Peres said. But, he promised, "there will be no compromise" when it comes...
Since Peru's exports may bring in only $3 billion this year, 10% of that total would cover less than one-third of the $ 1.1 billion in interest that the country owes for 1985. But at a time of extreme economic hardship and social unrest in Peru, García declared, the demands of foreign creditors would have to come second to the needs of his countrymen. Said he: "Let the peoples of the world hear me. President Alan García knows that Peru has a great and first creditor: its own people...
...week the people of Daveyton braced themselves for what seemed an almost inevitable confrontation with security forces. The township was preparing to bury Egnes Mbongani, 18, and Elizabeth Khumalo, 16, two girls shot and killed in a demonstration. They were victims, and thus they had become symbols of the unrest that has swept across South Africa...
...human beings, not animals. Recognize us for what we are: those whom God made in his image. I believe that what you get through the barrel of a gun you must keep with the barrel of a gun. All that is happening here is quite simple. The unrest is because of apartheid. Because some of God's children are treated as if they are less than God's children. As long as some of God's children are not free, none of God's children will be free. Those who rule us are watching us. They can't enjoy their...
...They are in a Catch-22 position when they say they won't talk until the unrest has been quelled. The unrest is not going to be quelled because apartheid is there. Botha has everything to gain from talking to blacks, because he could be saying to the world, "Look, I'm talking to these horrible people who are always criticizing me and who are anti-South African." The world would say, "Yes, Botha is reasonable, he does talk to his critics." We would have lost. I would be losing out too, because even to say I am willing...