Howard Witt

Continuing his grab for power, Russian President Boris Yeltsin on Sunday proposed a radical restructuring of the Soviet Union that would minimize the role of Mikhail Gorbachev and reduce the...

Weeds are sprouting through cracks in the streets, paint is peeling from the dingy prefabricated houses, arid scrubland stretches for hundreds of miles all around-and there`s not a single black...

Some of the people in Welkom seemingly most entitled to hate are struggling to contain their bitterness and ready themselves for the new South Africa. Frans van Heerden, 42, is...

Why would a black man join the South African police, a state agency long notorious for its role in enforcing the brutal apartheid system? The answer given by most black...

At Monrovia`s municipal airport Sunday, tearful families waved farewell as three more planes full of American citizens made their escape from this terrorized capital. Meanwhile, down at the Slipway, a...

The South African government warned Thursday of threats against the life of jailed black nationalist leader Nelson Mandela, and it said that concern for his safety is responsible for the...

The wife of jailed African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela said Sunday that serious obstacles were still blocking his release, despite the promise of South African President F.W. de Klerk...

There`s something strange about the current election campaign going on in Canada`s French-speaking province of Quebec: It sounds pretty much like an election campaign anywhere else in North America. The...

President Bush spoke the words Canadians had been waiting years to hear Friday, promising Prime Minister Brian Mulroney that he would move forward ''right away'' with legislation to reduce acid...

The tentacles of the secret Catholic and Protestant terrorist armies that reign here have begun to squeeze hard on the few moderate groups bold enough to suggest that the two...