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...stamp out ideas which differ from their own. Raising the cry of liberty, they want the state to suppress private activities which might result in opinions they dislike. To achieve their ends, they are drawing upon a more recent tradition, familiar to Massachusetts and to the Puritans-the witch trail. Today, Ms. Schkolnick and Mr. Dershowitz are trying to hang the members of the Fly Club. Who they'll want to hang tomorrow is anybody's guess, but none of us should feel too secure. Bob Zafft...
...until recently were the main stores catering to township residents. The new $2.8 million Lesedi City mall, east of Johannesburg, the largest yet built in any urban black area, houses 53 black businesses, including a supermarket, video library, disco and off-track betting parlor, as well as the local witch doctor and herbalist. Says Lesedi City Developer Gray Thathane, 56: "That's the march to freedom...
...terms, and found himself not guilty. But he never stepped outside of those terms, never attempted to understand the source of the complaint. Instead he has turned the whole situation full circle, proclaimed himself victim, and resorted to childish name-calling and irrational comparisons. "McCarthyism of the left" and "witch-hunt" are more than a little extreme. The complaint is not an attempt to spitefully purge society of outsiders, nor is it xenophobia, nor is it fear of something unseen. This is not politics--this is personal; it is his proclamations about Black life that I find incomplete and therefore...
...quarrel is not with the Crimson's coverage. Your story is balanced and objective. My quarrel is with the students who launched a witch hunt instead of attempting to engage in rational discussion about difficult intellectual issues. Stephan Thernstrom Winthrop Professor of History
...abducted youths. Fernando Maposse, 14, who was captured and forced to join the rebels, escaped after accidentally killing two members of his own band in a cross-fire skirmish between the guerrillas and government troops. Maposse said the rebels crept like animals through the bush and consulted a witch doctor before deciding when to attack. Another youth was tortured and abandoned when he refused to kill members of his own family. The rebels chopped off an ear and the fingers of the boy's right hand...