Word: anti-apartheid
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa--President P.W. Botha announced that the 195-day-old state of emergency imposed to fight anti-apartheid turmoil in South Africa probably would be lifted by Friday...
...announcement yesterday was praised by the United States and was given a cautious welcome from some South African liberals. But it provoked expressions of concern from the largest anti-apartheid grouping, the United Democratic Front, that the emergency would be supplanted by repressive legislation...
...emergency, imposed July 21 on 30 urban and rural districts and subsequently lifted from seven, gives police and troops sweeping powers to use guns against rioters and detain suspects indefinitely without trial. It has been widely condemned abroad, and its removal is a primary demand of anti-apartheid activists...
...college's invitation to students this spring to serve on the CRR was the first such request in six years, except for an ad hoc invitation last May, when the body was revived to hear the cases of 18 students involved with two anti-apartheid protests...
...separate development, the university decided to drop charges against 18 anti-apartheid activists who had tried to prevent the university's removal of the shanties two weeks...