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years of banning the songs of Mr. Frank Sinatra Communist Cuba capitulated, airing "Come Fly With Me" on June 18, and God knows how many other glorious arias since. Miss Karen Quinlan shook...
...It is not possible to argue that with complete assurance...
...Hence the Daily News editorial's fear that it would "be used by people who are already hostile to rape victims to prevent their coming forward...
...But Mr...
...And hair comparisons are, anyway, matters of very subjective interpretation...
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...Would the new South Africa enjoy the state of human rights that prevails in Angola, where 30,000 Cuban troops maintain the regime, or Zimbabwe, where a North Korean-trained brigade performs the same function...
...This was of two types: Mrs...
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...Webb's underpants which could only have come from someone with Dotson's rare blood group (about 10 percent of the male population...
...We never met a black man who doffed his hat let alone made way for us...
...Now, perhaps I am mistaken, but I have yet to hear of a U.S...
...Nevertheless, I chose to make the allusion to the Soviet Union, not only because I have seen both, but to make the point that the values of the South African government have little in common with our own...
...McDowell's study revealed that false rape accusations generally had certain features in common...
...James D. Van De Graaff Legislative Assistant to Congressman Philip M. Crane Washington, D.C...
...And though other witnesses at the Illinois clemency hearing, like her former boyfriend, challenged her recantation, their evidence consisted chiefly of asserting that they had been convinced by her original testimony...
...He is South Africa's answer to Jesse Jackson, complete with trite refrains and silly epithets...
...Not until she was aboard did the train move...
...But it's a diary nonetheless...
...The comparison with America's racial problems is too absurd to comment upon...
...Webb's original testimony looked less damaging to Dotson six years later...
...Our rates are only 90 cents per word (12-word mInimum...
...What would be the practical result of a South African system based on oneman, one-vote...
...Naude wrote on the New York Times op-ed page that the country would turn to socialism...
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...Chicago Lawyer's May issue examined this exhaustively--showing that half of it was worthless and the other half served to exonerate Dotson...
...So bloodstains from someone who was neither Dotson nor Webb were found on Webb's underclothes...
...Since the forensic scientist at the original trial was shown to have greatly exaggerated his qualifications, that settles that...
...The case continued...
...Obviously, to address Mr...
...Thus, constructive engagement must not be the answer...
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...That same conductor was not at all indulgent with us when he found out that our tickets had been purchased the day before, an offense which we hadn't caught in the fine print...
...The piece makes no mention of divestiture, its pros and cons, nor does it advance solutions for the Reagan Administration...
...His inflammatory rhetoric and speeches bespeak a commitment not to peaceful, evolutionary change, but to violent, revolutionary turmoil and bloodshed...
...Animal rights groups found themselves on the defensive when it was revealed that the destructive walking catfish of Southeast Asia is spreading throughout Florida and that the disgusting Cuban Death's Head cockroach is also proliferating...
...At the Cape Town Railroad Station the youthful conductor held up our train, smiling indulgently as he encouraged a passenger to hurry...
...Curiously, I finished his article with just such a "sense of relief...
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...When I think of their cold careless ignorance and compare it to Miss Phyllis George's instinctive good-heartedness in the same matter, I feel like hugging her myself...
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...Shattan answers more eloquently than I can why a piece such as mine has a place in a magazine like The American Spectator...
...Take, for example, his rather lengthy (and somewhat tedious) description of his meeting with two notorious critics of apartheid and the South African government...
...Because South Africa has become a favorite target of the Soviet Union and its allies, and because so many of its critics appear to be indifferent to human rights violations committed by Communist and Third World dictatorships, conservatives have sometimes been reluctant to denounce apartheid...
...One rationale for American support of Praetoria is that without help from Washington, Moscow-led insurgents will take the Cape along with the strategic minerals and ocean passages...
...Evidence was presented in the original trial that there were two bloodstains containing blood type A antigens on Mrs...
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...In general they exhibited the same heedless manners towards adults, black and white, as can be seen in any American city...
...Webb's original accusation fits the pattern of falsity almost uncannily...
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...In a male population of three million, that gives him a one-inamillion chance of being the (hypothetical) rapist...
...So the three corroborative points of forensic evidence fall by the wayside...
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...Here's a simple test: Try demonstrating that you are innocent of a rape that occurred in your neighborhood eight years ago...
...But if we never appear seriously concerned about human rights in friendly countries, our policy will seem one-sided and cynical...
...To do otherwise could be a costly blunder, one which we would most certainly live to regret...
...To forestall an obvious objection, I should add that the criterion for classifying a charge as false--namely, the complainant's admission that it had been invented--was far stricter than the criteria for deciding it was proven...
...This latter consisted of "several" pubic hairs found on her body which were microscopically similar to Dotson's hair but dissimilar to her own...
...On this occasion, the New York Times atoned for its earlier silence with a crisp and to the point editorial...
...As the first Afrikaner we met told us: "Ours is a complex country...
...The Times, slinking back into line, decided that the governor had "calmly resolved this case with fairness to the complainant, the prisoner, the legal system and the society...
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...Webb's original testimony is futher undermined by the results of a survey of rape allegations carried out by Charles P. McDowell, chief of the Special Studies Division of the Directorate of Investigative Analysis of the USAF Office of Special Investigations, featured in the June issue...
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...Stevenson simply doesn't address the principal questions...
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...The tunnel of horror described by Matthew Stevenson in "Old South Africa" was so unrelentingly foreboding, especially as he describes or alludes to the nature of the Afrikaner, that I feel my experiences in the Republic some three years ago might give balance...
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...But it made perfect political sense...
...But it also upheld a rape conviction obtained on little or no evidence and so soothed feminist anxieties that stricter standards of evidence in rape trials might be in the offing...
...As the Introduction to the State Department's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1982 put it, "Friendly governments are often susceptible to quiet diplomacy, and we therefore use it rather than public denunciations...
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...The reason I am suggesting a course in remedial reading is that nearly all the mail either incorrectly summarizes what I wrote or, worse, attacks the piece for positions it did not take...
...To demonstrate positive innocence beyond a reasonable doubt is immensely difficult...
...Would the new government be able to manage the country and feed its people...
...One reason I chose to write the piece in what Mr...
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...That is the reason I wrote that South Africa's cures lie in greater contact with the West...
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...The Post likes to ask a lot of questions about "Dallas" and "Dynasty...
...But such a phenomenon is strangely absent in other "repressive" countries in the world...
...Miss Karen Quinlan shook this mortal coil as did Chef Boy-ar-dee...
...Rather than imposing economic and diplomatic sanctions against South Africa, I believe that we should continue our present policy of "constructive engagement...
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...That's all very well, responded the Times, but "none of the precedents cited by the judge involved the changed testimony of the complainant, the supposed victim...
...What of the corroborative physical evidence...
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...In most comments about South Africa the pious hope is expressed that justice may be served without the need of force...
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...Does this mean that he is indeed innocent...
...Finally, Mr...
...Stevenson's article...
...Harrigan raises because he has taken my description of meeting Alan Paton and applied it to Beyers Naude who, as another point of clarification, did not advocate socialism as the solution in South Africa in his New York Times op-ed article...
...MD's, JD's, PhD's, Bus/Exec's, Talented Artists, MA's, etc...
...But the hypocrisy of others cannot justify conservative hypocrisy...
...But, as things stand today, blacks live in a gulag of townships and homelands, dissidents are often treated harshly--the case of Steven Biko, only the most notorious--and the ruling party is one that resisted entering World War II on the side of the Allies...
...And if South Africa is as remarkably similar to a Communist or fascist country as Mr...
...Anthony Harrigan Sewanee, Tennessee Matthew Stevenson's article on South Africa in the latest issue of TAS ends with Mr...
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...And just for the record, let's remember that changes are taking place in South Africa, and they will continue...
...The Daily News was a little short of ecstatic...
...Finally, Miss Jane Fonda's dog ended up in a common hoosegow, accused of being an accessory to robbery...
...It has twelve of the features identified in the study, including that an accusation solves some "problem" for the false victim and that scratches and cuts resembling words or letters are found on the false victim...
...Even so, as the Chicago Lawyer's June editorial argued, "however skeptical one may be of the recantation, it is nonsensical to say that her original testimony together with her recantation is stronger than her original testimony standing alone" That absurdity is the precise conclusion reached by Governor Thompson...
...If you can't solve our problems in the first 24 hours you are here, you never will...
...CORRESPONDENCE (continued from 46) nesburg my wife and I were faced with the same bustling determination on the part of both blacks and whites as to make us quite literally fight for our place...
...journalist meeting openly with Anatoly Shcharansky or Andrei Sakharov...
...What he said, in summary, was: "I do not believe that the United States can determine the direction or momentum of change in South Africa, but it can help the South African government to understand and accept what is happening...
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...Or his "daring" dash into the black suburb of Soweto (whose entrance he wistfully likens to the border between Vienna and Prague...
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...It is another example of the fly-in-flyout school of reporting on a country with one of the most complex situations of any nation in the world today...
...In its May and June issues, it set out to examine the evidence that convicted Dotson in the first trial...
...It took the Chicago Lawyer, an investigative monthly dealing with legal issues (on whose account of the background I have relied greatly), to show up all this for the nonsense it was...
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...Stevenson has a nice touch as a writer, but he simply doesn't have any familiarity with the country beyond a very brief visit...
...These and many other questions need to be considered in any truly serious article on the future of South Africa...
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...They have a searing quality, in the sense of Scottish righteousness, but also a twinkle of benevolence") don't help us understand the depth of problems in South Africa or the difficulty of arriving at solutions...
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...But to pick up TAS and read a piece that would seem much more at home in the Washington Post is disturbing, to say the least...
...Tom Fonda, insists that the dog was merely being used by local youths on a crime spree, but it is not to be ruled out that the dog, Taxi, was merely putting into practice ideas about private property that echo and re-echo through the Fonda manse--ideas, that is, about other people's private property.--RET CORRESPONDENCE Fly In, Fly Out I am very disappointed with The American Spectator's decision to publish Matthew Stevenson's article "Old South Africa" in its June issue...
...Such evidence, though not decisive, should have been greatly to Dotson's advantage...
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...I I . . . . . . ~ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CORRESPONDENCE (continued from page 46) time for The American Spectator to start its own quiz, at least for those who write letters to the editor...
...In Rome the testimony of the Pope's convicted assailant, Mr...
...Webb's testimony has, of course, since been recanted...
...I consider TAS one of the few publications where one can turn for a conservative viewpoint on timely issues, but not so with Mr...
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...Yet that is exactly what Thompson did claim--and for that he was praised as sensible, humane, calm, wise, and just by all the grave and reverend seniors of liberal journalism...
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...Webb's recantation greatly devalues her original testimony and the forensic evidence now points to Dotson's innocence rather than to his guilt...
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...I can stand a lot of rhetoric, and even downright nonsense, but this is going too far...
...Naude, who also wrote in the Times that the "the United States must help us minimize the emerging violence and maximize the chances of peaceful change...
...that the trial judge did not sustain an objection to such misrepresentation...
...Eventually a huge black woman appeared shuffling along at her own deliberate pace...
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...In walking the streets of Johan(continued on page 46) THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR AUGUST 1985 5 PRESSWATCH (continued from page 23) doned in rape cases, and the Dotson case found them unreceptive precisely because it suggested that false charges are made and can lead to grave injustice...
...I went to South Africa to write about what I saw and heard, not to write a policy brief...
...It is akin to comparing Fidel Castro to Simon Bolivar...
...But the trial transcript shows that the prosecutor misrepresented this evidence, repeatedly claiming that the antigens were from external polluters...
...Short of a castiron alibi, you won't be able to do it,) It does mean that no reasonable person could claim that he is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt...
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...The weekly quizzes came to mind as I read the correspondence, some of which is published here, responding to my article on South Africa...
...His descriptive passages and his interview with Beyers Naude ("His eyes are what you notice first...
...It freed Dotson and so calmed popular indignation at an innocent man's imprisonment...
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...She ignored him and it was he, grumbling feebly, who got off...
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...Stevenson's eyes, for the situation is as bleak and grim as ever (and old black men continue to doff their straw hats at passing whites and move aside to let white people pass...
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...Stevenson intimates, perhaps he can explain why there are more than 2 million foreign blacks from neighboring southern African nations who have voluntarily entered the country to work...
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...Mehmet Ali Agca, continued, revealing information that is bound to cause much rethinking among Christians and perhaps even Jews, for Mr...
...Webb had been a virgin...
...at worst, he is pro-ANC and proMarxist...
...Stevenson declaring that "one leaves South Africa with a sense of relief...
...Then comes the greatest humdinger of them all: Bishop Desmond Tutu is compared with none other than Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and even Abraham Lincoln...
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...we are all used to reading this type of liberal claptrap in the myriad publications that pollute our newsstands...
...Stevenson pondered the frequent inter-tribal violence in the mines and what that means for the future...
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...What we fear in South Africa's future may already have arrived...
...Stevenson is even aware of the history of black violence against Indians in Natal Province...
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...Her former boyfriend, who contests her story on other points, confirms her present testimony on that...
...Such a verdict made no sense in terms of logic...
...There were other incidents between blacks and whites which suggest something other than a totally harsh and sordid confrontation...
...An elderly white man protested strongly when a black cleaning woman insisted on roiling her cart onto our already filled hotel elevator...
...Usually their reeducation involves the use of torture and mind-altering drugs, and does not include meeting with foreign journalists to disparage the government...
...Dotson was guilty, "guilty beyond a reasonable doubt"---indeed, that the evidence against him at the hearing had been even stronger than that before the original trial--but that justice would not be served by keeping him in prison any longer...
...One wonders whether Mr...
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...Those who question the authorities in the USSR are sent to the Gulag for hard labor or to special psychiatric hospitals for "reeducation...
...Dotson might strive for another trial to clear his name (against the ferocious persistence of prosecutors who were curiously reluctant to test the evidence they claimed was overwhelming...
...Stevenson's article suffers from worse ailments than "halfbakedness'-it also borders on the absurd in numerous passages...
...Karl Hultberg Springerville, Arizona Matthew Stevenson replies: To test the attention of their readers, the New York papers have taken to running a weekly news quiz...
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...Van De Graaff's second point, there are many differences between South Africa and the Soviet Union...
...But on the other hand, cutting off ties doesn't seem to be the answer, either, for Stevenson asserts that South Africa's "cures lie in greater contact with the West, especially the United States, rather than in isolation...
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...I don't think it is the place of America to tell South Africans, black or white, what to do, but I agree with Mr...
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...Not only was his essay little more than a soporific travelogue, it was also a simplistic, even ritualistic wringing of the hands that has come to typify the reaction of critics of South Africa...
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...But it seems to me that many such commentators are like those who go to boxing matches...
...If Dotson was guilty of the especially vile crime of rape, why was justice served in releasing him before his sentence was up...
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