Word: africa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Questions. South Africa's Peggy Jordaan had heard talk of a possible transplant several weeks before the event. "So," she says, "I got hold of a couple of the boys-surgical residents -and asked them a few questions. I wanted to know how the heart might be excised, and then how the new heart would be sutured in place. I also did a bit of reading up in the library." Like the rest of Dr. Christiaan N. Barnard's team, Peggy Jordaan had been on standby for three weeks, and was at home on the memorable Saturday night...
...problem that the committee wishes to resolve is a potential conflict between two seemingly incompatible goals of the council: to spread its ecumenical net as wide as possible and to make Christianity more responsive to modern social issues. Representatives of the "new churches" of Africa and Asia want the council to take a strong stand on such questions as economic "colonialism" and nuclear armaments. But the numerically potent Orthodox churches of Eastern Europe and the Near East, says one council staffer, "don't give a hoot about secular problems...
...offer for a summer job in Johannesburg, South Africa--which has been displayed on the placement office bulletin board at the Business School--has come under attack in a letter signed by forty-three third-year Business School students...
...majority of Britain's 1,000,000 Commonwealth immigrants entered the country legally. Half the members of East Africa's 400,000-strong Asian community, for example, are entitled to British citizenship. Since Kenya has started discriminating against its Asian population, giving their jobs to Africans and boycotting their shops, Asians are fleeing to Britain at a rate nearing 3,000 a month. Immigrants from other Commonwealth countries came under the 1962 Immigrants Act, which introduced a system of work permits and restricted the annual total of worker immigrants...
...Edwards' standards, the night was enough of a success to encourage him to campaign all the harder against the U.S. Olympic team. A factor that no doubt will figure in his campaign emerged last week when the International Olympic Committee agreed to reinstate South Africa in the 1968 Olympics, after having banned it from Tokyo in 1964. The South Africans now promise to field a completely integrated team. Nevertheless, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Algeria, Uganda, Mali and Ghana immediately announced their withdrawal from the Games...