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South Africa:

Former South African President P.W. Botha, the defiant face of white rule at the height of the anti-apartheid struggle, died at his home on Tuesday aged 90, the South African Press Association reported.
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Asked in a television interview what would have happened if the black majority took control in 1948 — when Botha’s National Party took power — he remained unwavering.

“I think by this time we would have been in the drain already,” he said.

U.S.A.:

Incoming Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott issued a written apology Monday evening (12/9/02) over his comment that the United States would have avoided “all these problems” if then-segregationist Strom Thurmond had been elected president in 1948.
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“I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We’re proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn’t have had all these problems over all these years, either.”