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Article: Loosing the Bonds: The United States and South Africa in the Apartheid Years.(Review)
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- UN Chronicle
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- March 22, 1998
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By Robert Kinloch Massie Illustrated. 896 pp. New York. Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 1998
Besides business, South Africa and the United States share another common bond - their citizens' continuing struggle for racial equality.
From 1948, when South Africa first installed its racist apartheid regime, until 1994, when Nelson Mandela walked out of prison after more than 10,000 days of incarceration, the United States has been forced to reflect upon its own policies towards African Americans. And what it saw in this "mottled mirror" was not always the fairest.
Loosing the Bonds: The United States and South Africa in the Apartheid Years, by Robert ...