Apartheid. USA 1988

September 17, 1987:

Alan L Keyes, the Assistant Secretary of State in charge of international organizations at the US State Department in Washington has resigned in an angry and public dispute that had racial overtones. The clash was with John C Whitehead, Deputy Secretary of State, his immediate superior,

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who, according to Mr Keyes had treated him in a racially offensive manner. Mr Whitehead, the number two in the department, seemed angered and astonished and denied he had acted in a racist manner. Mr Keyes, who is 37 years old, is moving to the American Enterprise Institute, a generally conservative Washington-based group that studies public policy.^145.

145. The New York Times, from a report by Neil A Lewis