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This phenomenon is really "antiforeign sentiment without foreigners," says Liselotte Funcke, former Federal Commissioner for the Integration of Foreign Workers. In the five states that used to make up East Germany, foreigners account for only 1% of the population. Half of the 60,000 Vietnamese who once worked there have gone home, as have the 8,000 Cubans and all but 3,000 of the 15,000 Mozambicans...
Tonelson's piece is an extreme example of a widespread sentiment. The American labor movement is in a protectionist mood. So are many members of Congress. Local officials, bedeviled by deficits and cutbacks, fulminate at the idea of U.S. aid to the former evil empire. At a recent meeting of the National League of Cities, Sidney Barthelemy, the mayor of New Orleans, said, "The Federal Government needs to shift its priorities from continuing to assist and aid everybody outside America ((while)) ignoring the problems inside America...
...provide more than cursory information. The result, all too often, is a statistically impeccable snapshot of public ignorance and apathy. Presidential candidates then respond to the polls not by striving to present the electorate with worthy policies but by tailoring their appeals to the lowest common denominator of voter sentiment...
...That sentiment is not nearly as evident in the port city of Massawa, which was bombed repeatedly by Mengistu's forces. Few buildings remain whole. Children play in the rubble with toys made from tank parts while abandoned Kalashnikovs rust in the hot, humid air. "What are we free from?" complains Tirhas, 20, a teacher who would not give her full name...
...months ago. The challenge for the 2,000 delegates is how to retake the political initiative that the A.N.C. has lost to De Klerk in the past year. Thanks to his democratic advances, Pretoria's international isolation seems ever closer to an end. Even in the U.S., where antiapartheid sentiment is strong, pressure is building to end the five-year-old economic boycott...