Word: africas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...father was eager to adapt to his new environment." The Rabassas later moved to New Hampshire, where Gregory attended high school, but it was only at Dartmouth College that he took up the study of Spanish in earnest. During World War II, the Ivy Leaguer served in North Africa and Italy with the Office of Strategic Services. Among his jobs were receiving and reworking secret military codes: "My first experience of translation." His European service did not lead him to Spain. "If Hitler had invaded there," he says, "my OSS team would almost certainly have gone in. But he didn...
Flying back to Pretoria from talks in Cairo, South African Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha was in high good humor. Jauntily donning a red fez, Botha told reporters that with the aid of Chester Crocker, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, negotiators from South Africa, Angola and Cuba had made progress on future discussions concerning the withdrawal of Cuban and South African troops from Angola. But the euphoria dissolved the following day, when new fighting broke out. Pretoria said that twelve of its soldiers and 300 Angolans and Cubans were killed when a government force attacked a South...
...goes as planned, blacks will soon be represented for the first time in South Africa's national government. But there was no cheering in the townships last week, as State President P.W. Botha introduced legislation to create a national council. Its purpose: to plan a new constitution that will give blacks a role in national politics...
ALTERNATELY hostile and accommodating in the past few weeks, Jesse Jackson has caused little trouble for his party. While he feigned tough stands on certain issues--namely South Africa--he promised to keep floor fights to a minimum. And while he expressed anger over not being consulted about the selection of the convention's keynote speaker, Jackson's appointment of well-respected politico Ron Brown to handle his convention strategy was widely seen as a gesture of good will towards the party...
...messenger unaware, the pith-helmeted colored, or mixed-race, mailman pedaled his bicycle past the bougainvillea that lined the quiet suburban street. He stopped and rang the bell at the home of a theology professor at South Africa's Stellenbosch University. A tall, stoop-shouldered man came to the door. Curious, then amazed, the mailman watched the professor open the envelope, read the brief message and suddenly begin weeping. The mailman had no way of knowing they were tears...