Senator Lowell P. Weicker Jr., a Connecticut Republican, expressed a common feeling when he told the Senate that Mr. Reagan had failed to sense quickly enough the moral and emotional tide that had been rolling across the country on the apartheid issue.
Rarely has that conclusion been expressed more forcefully than in recent days when Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu, a Nobel Peace laureate once at the forefront of the fight against apartheid, issued his sharpest yet denunciation of the government, comparing it pejoratively with its apartheid predecessor.
A group of conservative Republicans in the House, led by Representative Newt Gingrich of Georgia, have stepped out front on the apartheid issue, arguing that the Repubican Party will never achieve majority status in this country until it is able to win at least some black votes away from the Democrats.
He was accused of both racism, for his handling of the apartheid issue with the South African delegation, and antisemitism.
Both McGuinn and Hillman doubted the sincerity of Parsons' protest, believing instead that Parsons had used the apartheid issue as a convenient excuse to leave the band and stay in England to hang out with Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.
It is very deeply felt". Faculty members and some university staff members attending the rally said they believe that the apartheid issue has wide support even among faculty members who traditionally prefer not to become involved in demonstrations.
This two-part exhibition traces what its curators call a "post-identity" development in South African art since the end of apartheid, with issues of class, race and gender subsumed under other personal or abstract concerns.
"Under apartheid, the issue was race and resistance," Mr. Attwell said.
The killing, beating and imprisonment of thousands of blacks and the Government's obdurate rejection of significant change makes apartheid an issue that demands moral action and social responsibility.
In his support for the Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP), as a powerful public movement like that which abolished slavery and tackled apartheid, Nelson Mandela issued this call in 2005, "Millions of people in the world's poorest countries remain imprisoned, enslaved - they are trapped in the prison of poverty.
