Word: african
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When South African Prime Minister Johannes Balthazar Vorster took office three years ago, he seemed the ideal man to continue the white supremacist ways of his predecessors-Johannes Strijdom, Daniel Malan and Hendrik Verwoerd. Grim and humorless, he had served five years as Minister of Justice and took credit for some of South Africa's harshest apartheid laws. To the ruling Nationalist Party, he was a hero, dedicated to preserving its policy of strict color separation. It is little short of amazing, then, that Vorster should now be under attack by Nationalist right-wingers as a dangerous liberal...
Since he took power in 1966-in the wake of Verwoerd's assassination -Vorster has embraced the heretical belief that South Africa should change its policy of all-out separation from the black African states to the north. His "outward-looking" policy, built on Verwoerd's first gestures in this direction, has succeeded in creating an odd but effective trade grouping, of white-and black-ruled states in southern Africa: Lesotho, Botswana, Swaziland, Malawi, Rhodesia and the Portuguese territories of Mozambique and Angola. Overtures have been made, moreover, to other black republics...
Uphill Fight. North Miamians can no longer walk across their lawns without crunching shells underfoot, and the snail outbreak may get still worse. Endowed with both male and female reproductive organs, the hermaphroditic snail multiplies at a phenomenal rate. In his authoritative study The Giant African Snail, University of Arizona Malacologist Albert R. Mead calculates that a single animal could theoretically produce 8 billion descendants in three years. Such spectacular proliferation requires a huge food supply-for example, Florida's luxuriant cash crops...
...students, three elected by prospective concentrators in the field and three by the members of the Association of African and Afro-American Students, were subsequently added to the Committee's seven faculty members. The Standing Committee recommends all appointments in the new department, and will continue to exercise this power until four permanent appointments have been approved, when it will be succeeded by an eight-member Executive Committee, to be composed equally of faculty and students...
Rosovsky was chairman of the Faculty Committee on African and Afro-American Studies, whose widely-publicized report last January recommended the establish-ment of an undergraduate concentration in Afro-American Studies, an increase in the number of fellowships available to black graduate students, and the creation of a black students social center. The Faculty adopted his committee's report in February, and Rosovsky was named to oversee the development of the new department...