Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...same year, a proxy asking that Raytheon make no new contracts with the South African government or state-controlled governments was favored by the ACSR but rejected by the Corporation's committee...
...referred to are true, such as the pressure on one's beliefs, moral code and cultural perceptions. Yet, equally true was my belief in the ability to withstand those challenges without compromising what I stood for. My U.S. experience increased my awareness of my multiple identities--Sudanese, Arab, African, Muslim and international," he says, noting that his parents are now perfectly fine with his choice...
...days later, black students from Afro andthe Pan-African Liberation Committee take overMassachusetts Hall in protest of the University'sinvestment in Gulf Oil. The students object toGulf Oil's practices in Angola and refused torelinquish the building until Harvard sold itsinterests in Gulf...
There was little romance to it, little about which to be nostalgic today. The evils our nation faced were real and powerful. We saw injustice in the Vietnam War, in poverty, in hunger, in the inequities faced by African-Americans. Each of us responded in different ways. Some chose to be conscientious objectors. One friend spent a semester organizing mine workers. Still others joined the Students for a Democratic Society. Many more of us joined the protests around the country. We marched against the Vietnam War in Boston, New York and Washington. In the spring of 1970, our protests against...
CAPE TOWN: Church bombing isn?t necessarily a human rights violation, former South African president P.W. Botha told a court hearing today. Botha?s contempt-of-court trial heard evidence that the octogenarian hardliner had ordered the August 1988 bombing of the headquarters of the South African Council of Churches, in which 21 people were injured. Botha is unfazed by the charges: ?He?s never denied ordering the bombing,? says TIME Johannesburg bureau chief Peter Hawthorne. ?He?s never admitted it either. In his own inimitable way, he?s saying he did it because the building was the headquarters...