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...Thought communism was dead? Not in South Africa, where the party is unashamedly resurrecting itself -- to the evident horror of President F.W. de Klerk. Last week the government arrested at least seven party activists, charging them with plotting to stage an armed insurrection by the African National Congress if negotiations to draft a new nonracial constitution fail...
Ironically, the government touched off the renewed anxiety over communism when it legalized the party last February, along with the rest of South Africa's outlawed political organizations. Longtime party leader Joe Slovo returned in triumph from exile in April and scheduled a huge welcome-back rally in Soweto this week. Since the communists have long been a powerful part of the black nationalist movement, Slovo was named to the five-man A.N.C. delegation slated to meet with De Klerk this week...
...which seems likely to give it a considerable say in negotiations. The party's utopian ideal of economic equality holds a powerful attraction for the millions of blacks disadvantaged ) by apartheid. But Slovo says his first priority is enfranchisement of South Africa's blacks. "I don't believe that communism is on the agenda," he told TIME. He says he now favors multiparty democracy and a mixed economy...
Mandela and De Klerk met to cool the crisis, but De Klerk wants communist Slovo dropped from the A.N.C. delegation. It will be difficult for Mandela to oblige. In the long run, though, the real danger may lie in the government's taking the threat of communism too seriously. Anglo-American Corp. director Bobby Godsell predicted that blacks in South Africa would reject socialism, just as East Europeans have. But this assumes that the government will resist any temptation to slap a new ban on the party. Says Godsell: "Communism has to be defeated in the minds of voting people...
...latest wave of propaganda, the People's Republic of China is trying to push the message that the ideals of Chinese communism are gaining strength in America, and particularly at Harvard...