Word: aid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...overstated: labor unrest is growing, industrial production falling and annual inflation galloping along at 150%. Perhaps most serious of all, basic food staples are in short supply, a fact underscored last week by President Bush's announcement that the U.S. will provide Poland with a special $59 million food-aid package. The urgency is not lost in Warsaw. "If the future government does not find effective means to change this situation," Kiszczak warned in his acceptance speech, "the country will be threatened by a catastrophe, a catastrophe that might lead to more than just a change of government...
...most black South Africans, such a story would have ended in forcible dispossession. In Zwane's case, his despairing family sought help from a legal-aid organization in Johannesburg called the Legal Resources Center. LRC lawyers obtained an order against the authorities and won permission for Zwane to return and rebuild his home and business...
...exile and Mandela in prison illustrates how perilous that course was. The LRC had its origins in the aftermath of the Soweto uprising of 1976. The brutal government crackdown following the protest prompted a group of liberal lawyers and professors to try to set up a free legal-aid service for blacks. U.S. lawyer Jack Greenberg, then head of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, helped design a program. With money mainly from American foundations, the LRC was founded in 1978. Since then, it has grown from a staff of three full-time lawyers with a $100,000 budget...
...even those American legal scholars who were instrumental in helping create the South African legal-aid programs do not see them alone as an effective antidote to apartheid. Last week more than 200 black activists took another approach by opening what they referred to as a "defiance campaign." They marched to eight whites-only hospitals, where they demanded and received treatment. Greenberg, now a professor and dean at Columbia University, believes a wholesale change in the country's constitution is needed to eliminate white domination. Judges in South Africa do not have the power to strike down laws as unconstitutional...
ESSAY: Why Helms is wrong about aid for the arts...