Word: africas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Traces the overall progress of jazz music from its distant origins in Africa and the New World to current trends. Emphasizes "jazz listening," in the analysis of musical form, of the different period styles...and of the personal styles of the greatest jazzmen...
...South African Defense Force out of Angola. He has agreed to a Nov. 1 deadline to set in motion the long-delayed independence process for Namibia. Afrikaner skeptics are muttering that independence for "South West," as they call Namibia, will just bring another Marxist government to power on South Africa's borders. Botha is using coverage of his road-show triumphs to counteract angry charges of "surrender" from the right-wing Conservative Party, which threatens to score large gains in national municipal elections...
Such a comprehensive settlement would almost certainly open more doors in Africa to him. It would probably blunt the sanctions drive in Europe and America. It might even be enough to launch the regional heads-of-government conference that Botha wants so much to attend. A senior British diplomat observes that the front line is holding firm now, "but it is beginning to wobble." In the meantime, Botha can count on two more summits in coming months when Zaire's Mobutu Sese Seko and Mozambique's Joaquim Chissano pay the return visits they have promised. Yet the real payoff...
After 15 years of authoritarian rule, Pinochet agrees to uphold results of a plebiscite. While the vote is a turning point, it will not transform the country overnight, and the future is far from certain. -- Perestroika brings intriguing changes to the KGB. -- Why South Africa is so eagerly courting its black neighbors. -- Foreign troops are leaving, but Angola still bleeds...
...keeping with Amnesty's policy of ideological impartiality, the report includes entries on the Soviet Union and Nicaragua, South Africa and Paraguay, as well as Israel, France and even Switzerland (for sentencing 600 people to imprisonment or suspended imprisonment for refusing military service). The U.S. is cited for executing 25 convicts in 1987 and for its harsh treatment of more than 2,000 Cubans detained in Georgia and Louisiana since the 1980 Mariel boat lift. The Soviet Union's black marks include sending at least 300 people to prison, into exile or to psychiatric hospitals. Explains Amnesty's U.S. executive...