Word: africa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dark skin that usually, though not invariably, characterizes members of the Negroid race may also be a protective device. If man was first born in tropical Africa, as some anthropologists now suggest, then it is possible that his skin, whatever color it may have been to begin with, took on added pigment-again, starting with chance mutation-as a screen against harmful radiation from the sun. It is a fact that Negroes seldom have skin cancer, though its incidence is rising noticeably in the white population of the U.S. The same pigment, by filtering solar radiation, impedes synthesis of vitamin...
Contrary to popular opinion abroad, Mrs. Suzman says the current Prime Minister, Johannes Balthazar Vorster is no improvement over the assassinated Hendrik Verwoerd. Although Vorster is apt to make superficial concessions, (such as integrating sports for the international games in order to get South Africa into the Olympics, and deigning to dine iwth African leaders in public) in general the machinery of apartheid had already been set up by Verwoerd and all Vorster is doing is implementing...
...Suzman says that her basic function is to keep a toe-hold in Parliament, kep the channels of information open, and try to counter the reactionary trend in South Africa. The conflict in Vietnam has taken much of the world attention and odium away from the regime in South Africa, but Mrs. Suzman hopes to keep a minimum of pressure on the government until inflation forces the Afrikaners into economic integration...
...would not be viewed as a radical in this country, and some might even question her credentials as a liberal. But there is no doubt that she is the most courageous public figure in South Africa, and that her efforts are appreciated by all rational...
...students along lines advocated by international civil rights leaders such as Malcolm X and James Foreman. The solidarity was useful to both sides. Africans could mount pressure on the Federal Government about American racial injustices, while American Negroes sought to make the U.S. take a more enlightened view toward Africa...