Word: africas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...insects have been migrating northward by the millions since 1957, when several swarms imported to Brazil from Africa were accidentally released. Sounding like a small airplane in flight, the hordes have been traveling at the rate of more than 300 miles a year. The bees are more aggressive than most domestic strains; when disturbed or defending their nests, they frequently attack animals and humans. Although their venom is no more potent than that of European bees, they are much likelier to sting, and so many sting at once that serious injury, even death, can result. Hundreds have died from such...
...face flushed. "If it is, don't ever come to this office again." He entreats interviewers to ask black Capitol Hill employees how he treats them and notes that a former press aide was black. But Helms has opposed civil rights legislation, busing, affirmative action, sanctions against South Africa and a federal holiday to honor Martin Luther King. He continues to insist that King associated with Communists and "was a man of tasteless immorality." "I wish he had not been shot," says Helms. "I fervently wish that, because I think he would have been exposed for what...
...hold it up next to the following parallel argument: the South African government determines what part of its annual budget will be spent buying police weapons, housing political prisoners, and doing other unsavory deeds, without reference to those tax dollars collected specifically from American companies doing business in South Africa. Therefore, American companies who pay millions in taxes to the South African government in taxes each year need not think of themselves as "supporting" the regime. This "argument" is so vapid even the Corporation hasn't used it yet (as far as I know...
...over from the all-male enrollment 16 years ago. At Yale University, students are concerned with divestment and union organizing as well as community work such as tutoring high school students. Across the country, students are concerned with racism, sexism and the homeless in America and divestment from South Africa...
...UMass-Amherst in February, students who occupied the New Africa House for six days to protest a racial attack on campus told reporters, "We're not revolutionaries. We're reasonable people with reasonable demands who intend to be taken seriously...