Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reserve to protect the African rainforest should be established in Zaire, despite the objections of many Western governments and the country that would host it, a visiting professor of anthropology told about 50 people in Boylston Hall last night...
...about talks" with three M.D.M.-affiliated antiapartheid campaigners, all of them rare visitors to Pretoria's Union Buildings, the seat of white rule: Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu; the Rev. Allan Boesak, president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches; and the Rev. Frank Chikane, general secretary of the South African Council of Churches...
...ranks of South Africa's antiapartheid struggle, Walter Sisulu is second only to his fellow prisoner and best friend, Nelson Mandela. A quarter- century ago, Sisulu and several other underground leaders of the African National Congress were captured on a farm in the Johannesburg suburb of Rivonia. Along with Mandela, they were sentenced to life imprisonment after being convicted in the Rivonia trial on charges of conspiracy to overthrow the government...
...will speak for the black majority. The clergymen handed De Klerk a 13-point agenda for reform demanding that the government lift the state of emergency and free the hundreds of remaining political prisoners, and then within six months abolish apartheid laws and begin negotiations on a new South African constitution with the A.N.C. "If we were to get that kind of commitment," Tutu said, "we would be ready to say to our friends, 'Put your sanctions programs on hold...
...Quality -- to coordinate environmental policy and to apply tough standards throughout the Government. Partly because it has no such mechanism, the Bush Administration's record has often seemed to reflect the short-term interests of the business community rather than presidential promises to provide international leadership. For example, some African | nations were outraged last spring when the U.S. seemed to be dragging its feet on a convention limiting the dumping of toxic wastes on the shores of developing countries...