Word: africas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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South African Novelist Alan Paton, author of Cry, the Beloved Country, died of cancer last week. The book was an early expression of the developing racial anguish in South Africa and has become an international classic. Earlier this year, had asked him to write an essay about South Africa today. Two days after | his death, Paton's widow Anne forwarded the incomplete typescript with a note: "I am very sorry he never finished it, but it was almost done, and during the last few days before he went into the hospital he was just too tired. In any case...
...Some people compare Israel and South Africa, noting that these are both countries in which some groups enjoy democratic rights, while others...
While much of East Africa is afflicted by drought and famine, the continent's northern and western regions are coping with a different tribulation: locusts. Billions of the ravenous insects have swept across Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, and are moving into Mauritania, Senegal and Mali. Aided by heavy rains that facilitate breeding, the swarms have grown into the worst such plague in 30 years...
...Food and Agriculture Organization, is fighting the pests. The U.S., Western Europe and the Soviet Union have donated a total of $30 million for pesticides and field operations, but F.A.O. officials say $150 million more is needed. "If the plague gets out of control, it will spread to East Africa and the Near East," warns an F.A.O. official. "It could be a disaster...
Harvard currently pursues a policy of selective divestment, retaining holdings in South African businesses that do not manufacture products it considers necessary to the country's apartheid system. Currently the University has $245 million of its $4.5 billion endowment invested in South Africa-related holdings...