The World: Equal Before God But Not Men

"All men are equal before God, but all men are not equal before men because the differences are obvious. "

So says James Thomas Kruger, South Africa's Minister of Justice, Police and Prisons, and thus the man in charge of trying to control the rioting that is racking the nation. He has strong opinions on the cause of that rioting. Blaming it on "the black-power movement based in America," he recently told a friendly audience of National Party followers in his native Orange Free State: "They sing We Shall Overcome. Well, they are wrong. We shall overcome. . . The black...

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