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...TOOK MORE than a decade of petitions, marches, hunger strikes and impassioned debate, but the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) last week finally voted for unilateral University divestiture from companies that do business in South Africa...
Those reports have angered Mugabe, who is concerned that they are frightening away much needed investment. The country is undergoing difficult economic times. A severe drought, now in its third year, has crippled agriculture land caused widespread hunger in the region. Formerly one of the continent's exporters of food, Zimbabwe has used up all its stockpiles and this year will be forced to import 700,000 tons of corn. The shortages are aggravated by the presence of some 150,000 refugees from neighboring Mozambique who have crossed into Zimbabwe in search of food. To alleviate the country...
...course not," he says. "If I were, I wouldn't be in the army." While most of his comrades carry lucky charms, Mohammed wears only an empty 9-mm shell casing around his neck. He is of a breed of soldier who knows nothing in life except battle, hunger, pain, cold and thirst. He and his friends say they are determined to die in the saddle, "like true Goran...
...Hunger and joblessness are not psychological, but the beginning of the solution is. Symbols can bring change. They have real power in the world. "Firsts" proceed and become seconds and thirds, until they are no longer phenomenal but routine. As that happens, more American blacks will become, in a sense for the first time, citizens of the United States. -By Lance Morrow
...Argentines have made it clear that they would not agree to a stringent belt-tightening program that might slow growth. Their economy expanded only 2.8% in 1983, following two years of decline. "We will pay the foreign debt, but without recessive conditions," Alfonsin declared. "We will not negotiate the hunger of the people...