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Perhaps the most unsettling thing about last week's killing of a German tourist in Miami is that Uwe-Wilhelm Rakebrand and his wife were perfectly willing to start their belated honeymoon by behaving like urban guerrillas. They had the right attitude for a city where five foreign tourists have been killed so far this year: if you want a vacation in Miami, train for it. Before departing in their rental car from the airport last Tuesday, they mapped out their route in advance. They kept to the main road. They stored their valuables out of sight, drove...
...time, the gathering of 2,000 cultural warriors will be in Washington rather than Virginia Beach, and will be open to press coverage. To overcome the group's conspiratorial image, Reed decided on the motif of a coming-out party. In a bow to political ecumenism, he persuaded David Wilhelm, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, to be the token liberal among dozens of conservative speakers. The movement remains overwhelmingly white and has roots in the backlash against the civil rights revolution; so Reed commissioned a national poll of minority churchgoers, hoping to find some unlikely constituency among their ranks...
...political party start another political party? The Democratic Party is embarking on a new grass-roots venture that will compete with Ross Perot's populist semiparty, United We Stand America. In about a month, Democratic National Committee chairman David Wilhelm will launch the new community-based organization, and hopes the group -- which will use an 800 number -- will enlist local Democratic sympathizers and eventually have 2 million dues-paying members dedicated to promoting Clinton policies...
...should be heartening that despite years of anti-A.N.C. propaganda, the majority of whites seem ready to live with black rule. Although many talk of leaving, a 1992 survey showed that only 27% of English-speaking and 13% of Afrikaans-speaking whites contemplate emigration. Some, like Wilhelm Verwoerd, 29, grandson of Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid and head of the government that locked up Nelson Mandela, have decided that what they cannot fight they should join. Last month Verwoerd stood on an A.N.C. platform in Parow, a conservative suburb of Cape Town, and confessed his political...
...Wednesday and in a rare break from meetings on Bosnia, the White House first team met in the Roosevelt Room to get the Administration back "on message." There were the President and Hillary, Vice President Al Gore and Tipper and the senior staff, plus Democratic National Committee chairman David Wilhelm and campaign consultants < Paul Begala and James Carville. The day before, the President had surprised reporters by admitting in the Oval Office that he could use a little "tighter coordination" and "a little better focus...