Word: african
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some activists had predicted a total of 250,000 marchers nationwide, but the South African Press Association put turnout...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa--Walter Sisulu, senior leader of the African National Congress and colleague of Nelson Mandela, was freed yesterday after 25 years in prison...
After seven years of focusing strictly on student services issues--like bringing chocolate milk to undergraduate dining halls--Harvard's only officially recognized student government ventured into the political arena last year. For the first time in recent years, questions about the University's South African related investments, minority faculty hiring and the presence of Reserved Officers Training Corps (ROTC) on campus dominated the council's agenda...
...traditionally "political" topic of divestment centers on the same underlying issue: the administration's unilateral mode of decision-making and its refusal to listen to opposing views. This is not to claim that the plights of Harvard students and of South African Blacks are similar. Rather, it is to say that Harvard's governing bodies and administrators are equally willing to ignore the concerns of both groups in the interest of convenience...
...York City's East River on takeoff from LaGuardia Airport with a highly inexperienced crew at the controls, both pilot and co-pilot failed to make themselves available in timely fashion for drug and alcohol tests. When a French UTA jet exploded in midair after taking off from the African nation of Chad, investigators found evidence of a terrorist bomb, allegedly linked to Middle East events...