gdvsmit@watrose.UUCP (Riel Smit) (08/27/85)
In article <220@cylixd.UUCP> charli@cylixd.UUCP (Charli Phillips) writes: > >As far as Eastern Bloc countries go, Yugoslavia is bad, but not by >any means the worst. It allows more rights and liberties than, say, >Romania or Czechoslovakia, but is more repressive than East Germany >or Poland. It is a one-party Marxist-Leninist regime, and consistently >violates the Helsinki Accords, the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human >Rights, and other agreements which it has signed. It just doesn't >violate them as often or as severely as some others. > In the light of the above (which is not new to me), and similar statements that can be made about a large proportion of African (and other third world) countries, can someone please explain why South Africa is singled out for the kind of treatment it gets? I'm not necessarily saying they (SA) should not be getting the treatment, I just want to hear peolpe explain why they do not become rabid over these other countries the way they do over South Africa. Why, sporting ties, investments, and what have you go on with hardly a whisper (and definitely nothing more than a whisper).