Word: anc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with black spectators and white plain-clothes officers last week as Judge Charl Theron entered the room. Guilty of high treason, said Theron, referring to the three young black men in the dock, all members of South Africa's long-banned black liberation organization, the African National Congress (ANC). The sentence: death by hanging...
...changing attitudes among undergraduates, the university has announced that the showers will be resegregated. "With new student populations come new moralities," says Director of Residential Life Marjorie Lenn. Many students are not so sure. A coalition of male and female dorm residents plans to fight the proposed change, anc the student senate has called for a debate on the matter. Complains Student Senator Freeman Woodson, class of '82: "I think the university is trying to kick us back to the Dark Ages." How far back? "To the year 1950," he says with a shudder...
Boston College Coach Tom Davis has reviewed the allegedly fixed games anc has said he can find nothing to indicate that his players had done less than their best. But he and other college coaches no doubt shuddered at Hill's succinct summation of his scam: "Point shaving is sneaky ... Kids have made thousands of bad passes by mistake for nothing, so what was so bad about making just one more bad pass and getting paid...
...sets about forging what Rusher calls "a new majority coalition" to enact Reagan's programs Bill Buckley expects to be kept quite busy in his chosen role at National Review watching, criticizing, correcting his fel low conservatives in the ways of the faith articulating new positions for them - anc for Reagan. Says the editor of the President's favorite magazine: "I'm changing my entry in Who's Who. Under profession, instead of editor, I am going to put ventriloquist...
...perhaps the most characteristic American element in all this, and the most moving as well, is that astonished moment when the reckless clarifier carefully looks over his audience (or courtroom or stationery or press conference) anc envisions being born again. O hopeful pioneer. All he has to do is say a few words and the world will be new. He feels better already. -By Roger Rosenblatt