Word: rigidness
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...generally speak Afrikaans, the language of the Dutch settlers. They have better employment opportunities-and are usually paid more-than blacks, particularly in the Cape, where many hold skilled or semiskilled jobs that would be reserved for whites in Johannesburg. But like blacks, and Asians, they are subject to rigid apartheid laws that designate where they may live, what public facilities they may use and that, of course, forbid them to marry whites...
Apartheid requires rigid classification of races and a host of humiliating laws to back it up. Every South African is registered by race: white, Coloured, Asian or African. Skilled jobs are frequently reserved for whites. Marriage or sexual relations across the color line are illegal, with long jail sentences attached. Africans may only go to special "Bantu" schools, designed to train them as servants in white-owned in dustry; blacks must pay for their education, while whites get it free. "Bantu Education" features classes in housework and 60 children to a classroom...
...encouraged, and United Nations Ambassador Andrew Young warned that the Administration's position on Bakke would never be forgotten by blacks. Carter reportedly maintained that he was inclined to give the edge to affirmative action wherever possible, but felt that the brief made a forceful argument against the rigid quotas at issue in the Bakke case...
...course; Mitford's involvement in the party was pretty complete, and she has a great deal to say about what the party was doing during the '40s and '50s. The picture she draws is radically different from the Communist conspiracy view: to insiders, the party was much less rigid and totalitarian than the rest of America believed, and Mitford's descriptions--from her slightly off-beat perspective--of party meetings and activities imbues the CPUSA with a human touch...
...class by themselves. They have been nicknamed the EE 304 cadets after the electrical-engineering course whose take-home examination was the focus of most of the charges. If the academy had followed tradition, none of the expelled cadets could have returned, for they had violated the rigid honor code: "A cadet will not lie, cheat or steal or tolerate those who do." It was only after an agonizing inquiry into the moral fabric of the academy that the Army ruled that any of the 152 cadets who had been kicked out in the scandal could apply for readmission...