Word: africanize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...does Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza parallel South African apartheid...
...lone concession to the southern African nations is that they can appeal the CITES decision. If they prove that their herds are out of danger, they could engage in tightly controlled ivory trading. Yet if major consumer nations block imports, there will be little market for ivory...
...told the government that there would be no solutions unless it met with the African National Congress and that it was the duty of the government to create the necessary conditions...
Outside the tan stucco shoe-box house in a dusty corner of Soweto, bands of shouting youths draped the black, green and gold banner of the outlawed African National Congress over the driveway. Others hoisted a smaller version up a makeshift flagpole atop the roof. Inside, Walter Sisulu, 77, the liberation organization's former secretary-general, conferred by phone with the A.N.C.'s exiled leaders in Lusaka, Zambia. Then he walked across the street to an Anglican church that had been transformed into a meeting hall. Hundreds of supporters were gathered there, celebrating Sisulu's release from prison after serving...
Banned since 1960, the A.N.C. vividly returned to the South African political stage last week. By releasing several A.N.C. leaders without restricting their activities, and by allowing their celebrations to take place unhindered, the government seemed to grant the group a sort of provisional legal status. The leaders will appear at an A.N.C. rally in Soweto this Sunday, the first such assembly to be permitted in 30 years. State President F.W. de Klerk was beginning to make good on the promise he made at his inauguration last month to ease tensions and move the country into...