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...growing furor over the circumstances of Biko's death will inevitably focus attention in the coming campaign on the government's racial policies. Even more crucial, perhaps, it may prove to be a final showdown in the 200-year-old cultural and political war between South Africans of English descent and the Dutch-descended Afrikaners. The Afrikaners' ability and willingness to adapt, if only to survive, are yet to be tested. But knowledgeable observers believe that a convincing electoral victory would allow Vorster to relax the apartheid laws and work toward peaceful settlements in Namibia and Rhodesia...
Geneva recedes, and a U.S.-Israeli showdown looms...
...needed was a win over Brandeis in ten days. As for the Eastern League, a doubleheader scheduled again Penn earlier in the year had been postponed, and would not be played unless Harvard had a shot at the title. Aside from the two games with Penn and the Brandeis showdown, the Crimson had seven Eastern League games remaining. Very simply, they had to win six of them, then at least split the replayed Penn twin bill, to make the playoffs...
...evidence of an activist U.S. foreign policy could hardly have been more apparent than it was last week. Vice President Walter Mondale, having placed the U.S. foursquare behind black majority rule in Rhodesia and South Africa in a showdown with South African Prime Minister John Vorster in Vienna, announced on his return that Great Britain stood solidly behind America on that intricate issue. U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young pushed the same cause -in his inimitable fashion-during a 20,000-mile, eight-nation tour. (He also managed to outrage Russians, Swedes and residents of the New York borough of Queens with...
...ranked Cornell and second-ranked Johns Hopkins both notched one-sided victories Saturday to advance to the NCAA lacrosse championship game. The showdown will be held this Saturday at the University of Virginia...