Word: anti-apartheid
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...first and most prestigious of the three is Cry Freedom, directed by Sir Richard Attenborough (Gandhi). Due in early November, it explores the friendship between Stephen Biko (Denzel Washington), the black leader who died in prison after police interrogation, and Donald Woods, a white anti-apartheid newspaper editor (Kevin Kline). Coming next spring is Atlantic's A World Apart, about a family caught in the racial strife of the 1960s, with Barbara Hershey. Also planned: The Long Weekend, to star Julian Sands as Neil Aggett, the first white activist to die in jail...
...heavy rhetoric but skimped on details. He warned that he would no longer allow funding from outside the country for those who rely on violence to promote political change. "We shall not permit the constitutional order in South Africa to be subverted in this way," he said. Many anti-apartheid organizations, church groups and trade unions receive contributions from abroad and will watch anxiously as the government spells out how it intends to take action and how it will define subversion...
...group of anti-apartheid protesters billing themselves as the "Harvard Seven" were dealt a major setback this week when a local judge barred them from using a necessity defense to rebut charges that they unlawfully blockaded a University fundraising dinner at the Fogg Art Museum in November...
COLLEGE CAMPUSES have played a major role in the anti-apartheid movement that has burgeoned in this country in the last three years. But even with widespread support the numbers of students actually involved in demonstrations and protests--in giving of their time and themselves to the issues of the day--have been relatively few. That is even more the case with the anti-nuclear movement and especially the anti-war movement that has grown as the Reagan Administration has stepped up its not-so-cold war in Central America...
...Anti-apartheid activists at Cornell barricaded a university building late last month, protesting the school's investments in companies that do business in South Africa...