On August 26, South African Prime Minister Pieter W. Botha finally admitted the invasion.

The Pretoria government now claims troops are withdrawing, after killing more than 450 people. But Angola reports fighting is still going on.

Botha justified this flagrant violation of Angola’s national sovereignty by claiming the apartheid regime has the right of “hot pursuit” to enter Angola to hunt down liberation forces of the South West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO).  
 
September 10, 1956
Adlai Stevenson and Estes Kefauver were in Clinton, Tennessee, on Aug. 30, the third day of the white-supremacist rioting against the integration of 12 Negro school children in the previously lily-white school.

But neither Stevenson nor Kefauver said one mumbling word against the racists or for the courageous Negro students. Not in Clinton, or anywhere else in the state, did the Democratic candidates for the country’s highest offices make any public statements about the anti-Negro violence that was flaring up under their noses in Tennessee, as well as in Texas and other parts of the South.

They were in Tennessee to attend a regional conference of the Democratic Party and receive the pledges of allegiance of the white-supremacist politicians.  
 
September 12, 1931
With the gaunt specter rising of a winter of misery and starvation for the millions of unemployed, the two leading contenders for the capitalist nominations for president in 1932, Hoover the Republican and Roosevelt the Democrat, are racing against each other to the goal of their ambitions with the plight of the unemployed as the football they kick around as they proceed. The latest act in this criminal play with the lives of millions of victims of “prosperity,” has just been unfolded at the jubilee celebration of the founder of the Red Cross in this country. Each of the tacitly avowed presidential candidates delivered a radio address on the occasion which was concerned far less with the Red Cross than with a pronouncement of their respective positions on the most burning problem before the working class.  
 
 
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