Word: africa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard Summer School Committee for Human Rights in Southern Africa will present a teach-in on "American Foreign Policy and Racism in Southern Africa," Thursday at 8 p.m. in Burr B. Speakers will include Allard Lowenstein, American expert on South West Africa...
...Muirfield links beside the Firth of Forth, a seaside torture pit that resembles Verdun after the battle. Bunk ers like shell craters pock the narrow fairways, and the thick, encroaching rough grows three feet high in spots. "You need a search warrant to get in that stuff," complained South Africa's Harold Henning. Adding to the misery, the howling winds dried the already fast greens to billiard-table speed. "It'll be the same for everybody," sighed Nicklaus. "That's the only thing you can say in its favor...
Mashour's problem now is to meet the challenge of the superships. The canal is limited, with some exceptions, to ships of up to 75,000 tons and 900 ft. in length. Shipping companies can make more money going around Africa with vessels of 150,000 tons and up than going through the canal with smaller ships...
There was some grumbling among the delegates from Africa. Asia and Latin America about the relevance of the whole discussion of social problems accompanying advanced technology. "That is like talking to me about the problems of over-eating when I haven't got any food," one African objected. The impact of technology may be dehumanizing, but I don't think that's anything as bed as poverty...
...week conference, now in its fourth day, is the first ecumenical meeting of this kind at which most of the participants are laymen. It is also the first such meeting at which there are more delegates from Asia, Africa and Latin America than from North American and Western Europe...