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...reunion at his family's Argentine ranch. Aides telephoned the report to Buenos Aires, where it was tape-recorded and driven six hours to the Dyson spread. It arrived as the executive was dining on a freshly slain and roasted heifer. Reading the document, Dyson realized that consumer anger was reaching critical levels. Says he: "You can get a wonderful perspective on some problems when you are half a world away...
...tricameral parliament. But blacks, who represent 70% of the population, continued to be excluded. The turmoil came to a head in March when police gunned down 19 black demonstrators near Uitenhage in the Eastern Cape. For a while the violence subsided, only to resume last month as anger grew over the slow pace of racial reforms and a recession in which thousands of blacks have lost their jobs...
Also, what appears to be antinuclear anger or trepidation in the country may simply be part of the perpetual up and-down attitude toward technology in general. Drs. Frankenstein and Strangelove are monsters to the Luddite sensibility quite apart from thoughts of a nuclear winter. It may be that after Hiroshima, Americans were no longer so keen on their seemingly infinite capacity to make things work, that the technological success of Hiroshima took the heart out of American can-do self-esteem. (At Los Alamos, a code name for the Bomb was the "gadget.") On this basis, one might work...
Three days later, as the unrest, powered by what Naudé calls "the anger of the voteless," flickered on despite the emergency, another prominent churchman spoke at a mass funeral service in the township of KwaThema, 35 miles east of Johannesburg, to deliver a message to both black and white South Africans. He was Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu of Johannesburg, the black South African who last year was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his long struggle against apartheid. Only two weeks before, the dynamic, gray-haired bishop had saved the life of a black suspected of being a police informer...
...have changed their minds "after they have had their door kicked down in the dead of night, their houses invaded, their parents hauled out of bed and their relatives beaten. Right now the people here would rather deal with white policemen than black. In the '80s," he adds, "the anger is against blacks who work within the system...