Word: abolitionism
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In almost any other society, such reforms would seem barely adequate at best --and decades or even centuries overdue. But in South Africa, they were seen as significant cracks in the structure of "grand" apartheid envisioned by the late Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd. Helen Suzman, a veteran antiapartheid Member of...
In the announcement dealing with the equally significant and more emotional | issue of the hated pass laws, the presidential commission described these rules as discriminatory and "in conflict with basic human rights." It noted that the laws make criminals out of blacks who live in or near South Africa's...
AMERICA'S standard of living rises far above any country with a socialized standard of pay, and this in itself should testify to the need to avoid it. I am not suggesting that workers become the puppets of business for their own good, rather that workers must play the game...
But it is the profile of an Indian, complete with feather, gold earring and big nose, which has served as an unofficial mascot for two decades, that is the center of attention. In 1974, Native Americans at Dartmouth asked for the abolition of the Indian mascot, and the administration agreed...
The champion's improvement elated his admirers. Others pointed out that at least 70 fighters have died as a result of injuries over the past decade, and the issue was raised again last week of whether boxing should be allowed at all. British researchers have called for the abolition...