Word: antiapartheid
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...cappuccino and sukiyaki did a brisk business as some 3,000 well-behaved protesters assembled in front of Sproul Hall to demand that the university divest itself of holdings in companies with investments in South Africa. At Columbia University in New York City, hundreds of students held a similar antiapartheid demonstration by blockading a campus building. At the University of Colorado in Boulder, 450 demonstrators were arrested while attempting to disrupt CIA recruitment interviews. To oppose military research at the University of Minnesota, ten students staged a "kill-in" by opening a canister of fake nerve gas and then collapsing...
...Washington, the Reagan Administration appeared to be trapped in a delicate position, by turns applauding Botha's reformist promises and deploring the savage realities of apartheid. Mounting a counteroffensive against the 20 separate pieces of antiapartheid legislation introduced in Congress already this year, Secretary of State George Shultz tried to tiptoe along the high wire of the Administration's policy. Apartheid, he conceded, was "morally indefensible." At the same time, he warned, "we must not throw American matches on the emotional tinder of the region...
...home improvements and scholarships to blacks. If American companies were forced out of South Africa, experts contend, they would not just close up shop; they would sell out. Says Jack Behrman, a former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce: "The Germans, French, Japanese and other potential buyers are not as antiapartheid as American companies. If U.S. interests were sold to South Africans, that would just strengthen apartheid...
...suggests that those demands will not be met anytime soon. Indeed, if history is an accurate guide, South Africa's blacks may be in for tough tunes. In 1960 and 1977, in the wake of the Sharpeville and Soweto uprisings, the government halted the orgy of violence by arresting antiapartheid leaders and outlawing most opposition organizations. In both instances, the silencing of black leaders ended the crisis. Whether the new crackdown will have a similar effect remains to be seen. Last week the Financial Mail, a Johannesburg newsweekly, ran a cover story titled "The Townships at War." The cover illustration...
...revolutionary South African playwright considered the founding father of black-township theater; in Soweto. The first to bring the realities of township crime, poverty and politics to the stage--often using African gospel and jazz--Kente produced more than 20 plays, including Manana, the Jazz Prophet, and the antiapartheid piece How Long. Last year he defied his country's taboos about AIDS by acknowledging publicly that he was HIV positive...