Word: africans
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Harvard's $1.1 billion endowment has been sporadically criticized in the last five years for holdings in South African companies, defense-related industries, and southern utility companies...
...subject of this distaff dissent is a controversial marriage-reform bill proposed by the Tanzanian government. Among the East African country's 12.5 million people, Christian monogamy has traditionally existed side by side with Moslem and pagan polygamy. The situation is fraught with inconsistencies and injustices. As Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere, a Roman Catholic, explains: "We have always accepted that Moslems can have four wives, and tribalists can have ten or 20. But if I should take a second wife, I could be prosecuted. Yet the police constable who arrested me might be a polygamist. The prosecutor...
...remoter corners of the landlocked southern African state of Lesotho, the fastest means of communication is a yell across the mountainous kingdom's multitudinous valleys. Last week those cries brought word to Maseru, the capital, that an all-out guerrilla war seemed to be brewing in the rugged Maluti Mountains of the north...
...support to his bishops. During his pre-Easter audience, the Pope singled out such "ignoble leftovers from the past" as racist intransigence and discrimination. Most other churches are expected to follow the lead of the Catholics. The Anglican bishop of Salisbury has praised the Catholics' courage, and the African head of the Methodist church, Andrew Ndhela, came out in unqualified support. He is chairman of the Christian Council of Rhodesia, whose 16 denominations plan to meet on April 26 to decide what action to take...
Their goal was ambitious: to extend the language of jazz even farther than the progressives and, at the same time, restore its old freewheeling gut-blues intensity. Drawing on African primitivism, Mediterranean and Asian folk music, and sounding at times like Viennese atonalists, the new jazzmen vary tonal centers, when they are used at all, as often as they do moods. Basic rhythms, unavoidable before, are often merely implied or forgotten entirely now. But as Ornette Coleman says, "When it's done with taste and love, hardly anybody wouldn't like...