Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would hope and guess that if it were African-Americans or handicapped people or senior citizens or Hispanic people receiving such treatment, the [council] wouldn't tolerate the institution one bit," said Joseph H. Cice '88-89, co-chair of the Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Students Association (BGLSA). "Why not with lesbians...
...Anglo male." Constanzo, who as a youth in South Florida reportedly practiced Santeria, the Caribbean voodoo, led the crazed rituals that accompanied the bloodletting. In the killing field, police found dozens of long candles as well as garlic, peppers and scores of half-burned cigars -- the accoutrements of an African offshoot of Santeria known as Palo Mayombe...
...fitful peace descended last week on Namibia as the longtime South African colony struggled to carry out its United Nations-supervised transition toward independence. There were only a few clashes between guerrillas of the South West Africa People's Organization and local and South African security forces; the fighting had killed 293 during the first three weeks of the transition. Some 1,000 SWAPO forces remained in Namibia rather than returning to bases more than 100 miles north, beyond the border in Angola...
...visit was to meant to bring attention to the University's investment policies and conflicts of interest of members of the Corporation--the University's seven-member chief governing board--who sit on the boards of companies with South African interests...
Such actions have attracted greater participation in the past. The largest visit occurred three years ago, in April 1986, when a delegation of 70 SASC members entered the offices of the Harvard Management Corporation, which controls Harvard's assets, and of the Gillette Company, which owns a South African subsidiary...