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Although drug abuse is not a problem unique to the U.S., the nation's cultural values and attitudes make it unlikely that the problem will ever be erased by even the most concerted Government crusade. The freedom inherent in American society assures that people will always be able, and often...
As early as 6 a.m., the streets of Soweto were mobbed with mourners determined to bury their dead. Militant black youths roamed the sprawling township outside Johannesburg, enforcing a work stoppage that had been called to honor the 24 Sowetans felled a week earlier by police gunfire. Wielding sjamboks, or...
Last week's violence in Soweto seemed virtually inevitable. Two days before the mourners gathered, authorities had announced restrictions clearly designed to derail township plans for a mass funeral for those who had died in the previous week's police crackdown on rent strikers. When outraged Sowetans defiantly ignored the...
The press decision, though, did not affect tough new curbs announced last week by the government in its continuing tussle with reporters. The new strictures were imposed to close a loophole in the complex media regulations. The government had earlier conceded that some prohibitions were invalid because the measures had...
As pieced together from the various accounts, the latest showdown began taking shape on Wednesday, just 24 hours after the government had imposed new restrictions on political gatherings. Police went from house to house in Soweto, displaying the text of the new orders: no mass funerals, no outdoor ceremonies, no...