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From: janw@inmet.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: A Simple(?) Question: another Qu
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Date: Thu, 28-Nov-85 13:55:00 EST
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[orb@whuxl]
 
>That is why I feel it is a pity that Nelson Mandela and other leaders
>of the African National Congress have made a big mistake by
>abandoning civil disobedience and nonviolent opposition to Apartheid
>in favor of violence.  Those opposed to the brutality of the 
>Pinochet dictatorship (supported by the US) have an interesting slogan:
>"We have clean hands!"  In other words: they have not and will not
>commit murder to attain their rights.  While the Pinochet regime
>commits murder regularly, their hands are clean.

This is the *very smartest thing* I ever saw printed on South 
Africa ! And if they abandoned arms, they could renounce
any Soviet ties ; which would make their support in the West
overwhelming. Perhaps then they could conduct *democratic
elections* on their own. Even if only a minority took part -
because of police repression - a parliament thus elected
would have an *invincible* moral power.

		Jan Wasilewsky