Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Selective divestment calls for Harvard to drop its stock in companies with poor ratings under the Sullivan Principles and from companies selling strategic products such as weapons to the South African government...
LIGHT AT THE TUNNEL'S END. The negotiators working on a timetable for the withdrawal of 50,000 Cuban troops from Angola have learned not to underestimate Fidel Castro. When South African forces mounted a successful operation in Angola at the end of 1987, Castro rushed in as many as 5,000 additional troops, including his own elite presidential guards. Largely because of Castro's move, South Africa backed off and resumed peace talks. Now Castro insists that his troops leave on Cuban ships and planes, not Soviet ones. "Fidel put everything on the line," says a U.S. diplomat...
...urged blacks to boycott the vote, despite the ban on such appeals. Others have resorted to deadlier tactics: shooting council candidates or fire bombing their cars and damaging meeting halls with mines and hand grenades. Last week, in apparent retaliation, suspected white extremists bombed the headquarters of the South African Catholic Bishops' Conference, which is strongly opposed to apartheid. More violence may be in store before voting day, with the outlawed African National Congress vowing that it will "escalate the armed struggle...
...later, when drought and famine were again ravaging this small African country, the aid was not nearly as generous nor as widespread. The only difference was that the second time, famine was not a "hot" news item and received almost no media attention. It's hard to decide where the fault lies, with the media for being too worried about attracting readers with hot news, or with society for not being consistent in its attention...
Botha's problem is how to maintain this fall's diplomatic momentum. He has skillfully orchestrated his parade into those African countries that are particularly vulnerable to South African pressure and blandishments. But he has yet to persuade the leaders of the key front-line states that his journeys offer more than cosmetic change. If anything, Pretoria's state of emergency is more repressive to antiapartheid forces now than it was two years ago. Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe, a voluble foe of "the Boers," said stiffly, "I don't know who else Botha will meet. I have no appointment with...