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Black Hopes and White Fears

Neither has been fulfilled, according to Dan Rather in this 1994 report on Zimbabwe in advance of voting in South Africa to approve a majority rule form of government.

I wonder what Dan would say about the situation today in Zimbabwe?

"HARARE, Zimbabwe — Raids on opposition party offices and the rounding up of foreign journalists are threatening to push Zimbabwe further toward confrontation between current President Robert Mugabe and the apparent winner of national elections.

Police raided the Meikles hotel, which is used by the opposition, Movement for Democratic Change, and ransacked some of the rooms. Riot police also surrounded another hotel housing foreign journalists, York Lodge, and took away several of them, according to a man who answered the phone there.

"Mugabe has started a crackdown," Movement for Democratic Change secretary-general Tendai Biti told The Associated Press. "It is quite clear he has unleashed a war.""

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