Word: antiapartheid
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...November 21 of last year 19 Harvard alumni and other antiapartheid activists were arrested while staging a peaceful protest outside a Harvard University fundraising dinner. They were protesting Harvard's refusal to divest its $300 million invested in companies doing business in South Africa. Seven of these individuals will go on trial today in Middlesex District Court...
...past six years, says David McLaughlin, part of his job has been "to make the students and the faculty somewhat uncomfortable." He may have been too successful. Although the former president of the Toro manufacturing company has more than doubled the college's endowment, his handling of antiapartheid protests and a conservative student newspaper drew sharp criticism. Moreover, many faculty members resent his tough management style and lack of academic experience. In October, McLaughlin disclosed he would step down...
...liberal side, the strongly antiapartheid Progressive Federal Party is struggling to retain its position as the opposition party, a role it has held for more than nine years. It has been handicapped, however, by the confidence-dashing resignation a year ago of its dynamic leader, Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert, 46. The party's new chief, Colin Eglin, hopes to increase its seats from 27 to about 40. That may be more of a dream than a hope. Forty seats, he speculates, could make the P.F.P. large enough that some relatively liberal National Party Members of Parliament might join forces with...
...Masabata Loate, a leader of the 1976 antiapartheid student uprising, was slain with axes and knives near her Soweto home after serving a five-year prison term for treason. Loate, 29, had angered the comrades by speaking out strongly against necklaces...
...people's courts are a brutal offshoot of street committees that were once promoted by the United Democratic Front and the African National Congress, South Africa's outlawed antiapartheid group. Initially formed to discuss grievances and political protests, the committees have since turned to more direct and violent action...