Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...firm was seeking ten second-year students to work for two weeks this summer. Fifteen students made appointments to speak to the firm's representatives. Four cancelled their appointments, including one student who said he broke the appointment because of the firm's South African affiliations...
Although the law firm's alleged connections with the South African regime caused the demonstration, radical students are critical of the entire recruiting program. Robyn Cooper, IL, treasurer of the Student Bar Association and an active member of the radical group, complained about the program stating that "the recruiters never respond to your questions, never tell you anything about the firm's policies...
...scores of other exotic places. Handwoven rugs and wall hangings from over thirty countries; jewelry, African sculptures, fur throws and pillows, and fur lined suede Polish "Zhivago" coats and jackets are among the many unusual handcrafted gift items for the home and that special person...
...English-speaking flyers are housed in the dilapidated, mosquito-ridden Hôtel de la Rèsidence, run by a waspish French brunette named Jackie, whose sole virtue seems to be that she is able to count in English. Eighteen of the pilots are Rhodesian and South African, all clad in the uniform of the British colonial in Africa: highly polished shoes, long socks, neatly pressed shorts and starched bush jackets. Carefully holding themselves apart are several ex-RAF types, moustached and bearded, who punctuate their clipped, casual conversation with dated bits of Battle of Britain slang like "wack...
...perhaps an overly hasty judgement. In some matters, to be sure, the new Premier echoed Salazar's old policies. Caetano insists that Portugal's determination to retain its African "provinces" was a matter of national policy and not just the whim...