Word: african
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nagging mystery: What could South Africa be doing with the enormous quantities of gold -77% of the non-Communist world's output-that it mines? The question is much more than an intellectual game for economists. It involves such practical matters as the future of the South African economy, the value of the U.S. dollar and the whole intricate mechanism of international gold trading...
Even so, South Africa has been selling somewhere. South African Reserve Bank statistics show that just about all of the $560 million worth of gold that the country has mined so far this year has been sent abroad...
...that he supported the whole thrust of the demands. Addressing himself to the Five Demands, Dr. Gallagher began by saving that he expected Professor Wilfred Cartney's report on the establishment of a Black and Puerto Rican Studies Program in a few weeks. Dr. Cartney, a Black professor of African Literature from Columbia, was hired to assist the students in the development of such a program. As of several weeks ago, the proposed school would exist as a separate department within the School of Liberal Arts and would not be able to confer a degree upon its graduates...
...military service, not on the ground of conscientious objection but on the dubious claim that every baptized member of the sect is a minister; as a result, a survey showed, 300 young American Witnesses were in jail last year for draft evasion. Currently, they are having difficulties with several African nations. In Zambia, for example, 3,700 Witness children were expelled from public schools for refusing to salute the flag, which they refuse to do anywhere because it expresses the kind of allegiance that is owed to God alone...
...means "wisdom" in the Chichewa language-has produced 35,000 radios of Kroeker's design, and employment has grown to more than 50. In 1968, the company earned about $60,000 on sales of $210,000-a modest sum by Western standards but a considerable feat for an African enterprise. Nzeru has just introduced a portable model that, together with a new radio-phonograph, promises to increase sales...