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...officers are now taking their case to the Harvard community at large. In the last three weeks, officers have distributed a letter to College students and their parents that "requests your support in our ongo- ing struggle for a fair contract." And theyhave dotted the campus with blue Harvard policeballoons...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: Police Contract Stalled | 9/28/1993 | See Source »

...secession of Katanga, homeland of more than 1.5 million Lunda tribesmen, who also live in northwestern Zambia and eastern Angola. The rebellion was led by Mo'ise Tshombe, whose followers were seeking to preserve their mineral wealth from their enemies, the government in Leopoldville (now Kinshasa) and the Bak-ongo tribes of the lower Congo. In those days the secessionists were thought to be rightists in the hire of the Belgian and French mineowners. Although their successors in the Congolese National Liberation Front (F.N.L.C.), who just attacked Kolwezi, talk vaguely of installing a radical regime in Kinshasa, they are probably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: Countering the Communists | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

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