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Word: afros (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said. "I heard them yelling, 'Come out, you terrorists and your leader. We want to take him to Salisbury.' " That would undoubtedly have pleased Robert Mugabe, Nkomo's co-leader of the Patriotic Front, who was in Lusaka last week to attend a meeting of the Afro-Asian Peoples' Solidarity Organization. Mugabe's 8,500 Mozambique-based guerrillas have borne the brunt of the fighting inside Rhodesia, while most of Nkomo's larger and better equipped force has sat out the battle in Zambia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHERN AFRICA: Sneak Attack | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

...present, a third visiting committee is surveying the department to determine if it should be relegated to committee status. As a committee, Afro-American studies would not control its own curriculum, and would lose the independent perspective it now offers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Support the Boycott | 4/21/1979 | See Source »

...administration blames the problems of the Afro-American Studies department on the lack of professors willing to join the department. but while the University keeps the status and funding of the department so tenuous, it can hardly expect to attract outside professors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Support the Boycott | 4/21/1979 | See Source »

Though problems in the Afro-American Studies department are not as widely publicized an issue as divestiture, those students most immediately concerned with University action against the department hope to win fellow students' support for the department. Petitions calling for increased tenured staff and funding for the department are at present circulating the Houses. Returns from four Houses alone show over 500 signatures; the final amount of student support remains to be seen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Support the Boycott | 4/21/1979 | See Source »

...even though a majority of students support divestiture, and even if similar support were shown for the Afro-American Studies department, the effect of such support thus far has proven negligible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Support the Boycott | 4/21/1979 | See Source »

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