Word: equalizing
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However, at 10 calories an ounce, even anincautious eater can indulge fairly safely. Elevenservings of Tasti D-Lite just equal the caloriccontent of a peanut butter sandwich...
That right is challenged by 1.5 million Zulus, who pledge their loyalty to Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi. He claims an equal right to participate in any negotiations, and has kept close ties to Mandela personally. But Buthelezi's Inkatha movement is suspect to many blacks for its history of cooperation with the government. The A.N.C. despises Buthelezi as a white puppet, and violent rivalry between the two organizations over the past two years has left more than 1,200 blacks dead. Also at odds with the nonracial A.N.C. is the much smaller Pan Africanist Congress, whose slogan is Africa...
...begin, it could founder all too quickly because the fundamental aims of the two main parties are so far apart. Stripped to their most basic positions, the A.N.C. says it will settle for no less than one man, one vote, black majority rule, while the government demands that an equal share of power for whites be written into the constitution. But the A.N.C. flatly rejects any political system based on racial groups. According to Mandela's lawyers, he has told the government he remains committed "to a single nonracial democratic South Africa with a single Parliament on a common franchise...
...battle cry is "inclusion" in the teaching curriculum for every politically situated minority. In California, for example, it is required by law that textbooks not just exclude "adverse reflection" of any group but include "equal portrayal" of women, minorities and the handicapped. In texts on "history or current events, or achievements in art, science or any other field, the contributions of women and men should be represented in approximately equal numbers...
Says a respected female historian: "I'm beginning to think that in the future it will become impossible to write a history textbook and satisfy these kinds of demands. After all, how do you write a history of the Bill of Rights giving equal time to the contribution of women...