Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...naturalistic setting. Zoo directors refer to "the Bambi syndrome," a belief common among visitors that all creatures should be cuddly, or at least not killers. A while back, the Detroit Zoo staff euthanatized a dying goat from the children's zoo and placed it in the African-swamp exhibit, which includes big vultures. Doing what came naturally, the vultures ate the goat. About half the zoogoers who happened upon the scene were fascinated, says director Steve Graham. But the other half averted their children's eyes and scurried away...
...heading "Tragedies Witnessed," Leland decided to do something about it. Despite the apathy of his fellow representatives, despite the chronically poor relations between the United States and Ethiopia, he formed the Select Committee on Hunger in the House and managed to appropriate $800 million for famine relief in that African nation. How many lives that $800 million has saved is unknown, possibly tens of thousands, but that was still not enough for Leland, who continued looking for solutions to the global problem of hunger...
...lawyers expect such a complete transformation overnight. The campaign to provide blacks with legal defenses began after World War II, when both African National Congress President Oliver Tambo and nationalist leader Nelson Mandela began their careers as lawyers. The fact that Tambo is in exile and Mandela in prison illustrates how perilous that course was. The LRC had its origins in the aftermath of the Soweto uprising of 1976. The brutal government crackdown following the protest prompted a group of liberal lawyers and professors to try to set up a free legal-aid service for blacks. U.S. lawyer Jack Greenberg...
...even those American legal scholars who were instrumental in helping create the South African legal-aid programs do not see them alone as an effective antidote to apartheid. Last week more than 200 black activists took another approach by opening what they referred to as a "defiance campaign." They marched to eight whites-only hospitals, where they demanded and received treatment. Greenberg, now a professor and dean at Columbia University, believes a wholesale change in the country's constitution is needed to eliminate white domination. Judges in South Africa do not have the power to strike down laws as unconstitutional...
Still, South African civil rights lawyers praise even small gains in a country that has detained 54,000 people without charge in the past ten years. "The message we take into the black communities," says LRC lawyer Mohamed Navsa, "is, 'We are here to tell you that you do still have some rights, and we will defend them...