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...Mandela. He accused her of berating the four victims as "not fit to be alive" and then repeatedly punching them, despite their denials of homosexual conduct. "She asked me why do I make friends with white people?" said Kgase. At one point, he said, she struck him with a whip, "humming a tune and dancing to the rhythm." Kgase testified that some of the worst beatings were reserved for James Moeketsi ("Stompie") Seipei, 14, whom Mrs. Mandela accused of being a police informant. The youth was later found dead. Jerry Richardson, head of Mrs. Mandela's bodyguards, has been convicted...
...similar vein, Bob Dornan, a G.O.P. colleague from California, took a shot at CBS. He charged that "for Gunga Dan ((Rather)), the more radical the cause, the more airtime it receives." Taking aim at a different target, House minority whip Newt Gingrich last week blasted Speaker Tom Foley for appointing to the Intelligence Committee liberals "who don't believe in intelligence gathering...
...shocked a party congress by staging a dramatic walkout, leading an exodus of some 2 million disaffected members. But Khrushchev's miracle may not have been quite enough. By last week, it had become clear that die-hard disciples of Marx and Lenin were determined to regain the national whip hand, come what...
Last week House Republicans sent two messages -- neither of them welcome -- to the White House. They re-elected Gingrich minority whip and retained Michigan Congressman Guy Vander Jagt as chairman of the G.O.P.'s House campaign committee, boldly rejecting White House-backed Tennessee Congressman Don Sundquist. That leaves in place the committee's co-chairman, Ed Rollins, who had infuriated Bush and White House chief of staff John Sununu by suggesting that G.O.P. candidates in last month's elections distance themselves from the President for reneging on his "no new taxes" pledge. Vander Jagt refuses to fire Rollins...
...economic mess. Even the most ardent reformers are growing exasperated with inexperienced, often incompetent deputies, who spend more time squabbling over plans to confiscate Communist property and change the name of the city back to St. Petersburg than debating bread-and-butter issues. Sobchak's efforts to crack the whip have provoked complaints of "authoritarianism." He in turn claims that "many of those who call themselves democrats have no notion of democracy...