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...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...
...other multimillionaires, the new league initially tossed around seven-figure salaries to lure players away from the N.F.L. As a result, the average N.F.L. salary has risen 58%, to $163,000, in the past two years. The N.F.L. Management Council warns that if paychecks keep rising at the present pace, the league could lose $87 million...
Throughout this autobiography-of-sorts, skillfully shaped by former TIME Correspondent Leo Janos from interviews and transcripts of Government tapes, Yeager strives to be himself: an elite member of the warrior class. To vary the pace and tone, Janos has wisely included commentaries and observations by friends and Yeager's wife Glennis. All contribute to the conclusion that their hero belongs to a breed apart, and it is not hard to understand why. The myth of transcendence inherent in flying separates those who do from those who don't. It is as if Yeager and his comrades evolved from birds...
...author's customary beat is major league politics and journalism (The Best and the Brightest, The Powers That Be), and his usual tone is portentous. But in this canny change of pace, David Halberstam becomes a miniaturist, examining the claustrophobic world of competitive rowing...
...much of black Africa. They fear the thought of undereducated blacks in control, though they themselves are answerable for the low level of black education in South Africa. They are afraid of being wiped out. But by their very size (4.9 million) and power, they can control the pace of black advance in a way that vastly smaller white minorities could not do elsewhere in Africa. In discussions of power sharing, they have the strength to demand a federal or confederal system in which their rights would be assured...