Word: africa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Balthazar Johannes Vorster took over as South Africa's Prime Minister six months ago, the world had little reason to expect that he would be much different from the assassinated Hendrik Verwoerd, the apostle of apartheid. Vorster had, after all, been Verwoerd's police boss for five years, and he looked even tougher and more unbending than the white-thatched Verwoerd. But Vorster has been a considerable surprise. While not basically changing South Africa's policy of racial separation, he has proved far more reasonable than his predecessor, injecting some humanity and even humor into South...
...Howard thought up Sing-Out in 1965 and all of a sudden MRA caught on. The success was sensational. In just a year and a half, the three national troupes and the numerous foreign troupes have sung before two million people all over the world: South and Central America, Africa, Japan and Korea, and throughout Europe. They have been at 84 military bases, and Sayre reports that Gen. Westmoreland wants them to come to Vietnam if it can be arranged...
...especially surprised last week when Charlotte allowed that she was on her way back to Juarez. Though the Niarchoses have a ten-month-old daughter, Elena, for the past year Charlotte has been living in Manhattan, while her husband has been traveling around Europe and Africa. Last week, after working out a financial settlement for her daughter, Charlotte flew to Mexico with her mother and sister and got a quickie divorce...
...unlikely to be victimized for their views on politics and university structure; as one law lecturer said, "No disciplinary charges would ever be brought again unless approved by a student-staff committee." Second, the principle of student solidarity--with detained students in Rhodesia, with exiled students from South Africa, and in universities throughout Britain--has received new strength. Third, and most ominous for the rule of the old men, there are no longer any sacred, unquestionable aspects of the London School. "The demonstrations have changed the atmosphere completely," said one politics professor. "Everything is now on the agenda." An American...
...want to get anything out of them. We had been making progress in relaxing those suspicions. Then all of a sudden--Boom! Things have changed a bit. It tears us up. We've been set back." One of the main questions he will be asking while in Africa this month is how great the impact of the CIA disclosures has been on African government officials formerly friendly to American scholarship programs...