Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sensitive seat (plot device lifted from Elmore Leonard's novel Freaky Deaky), and reduction of the Afrikaaner diaspora by about one-half. As Riggs tells Murtaugh, "We're back! We're bad! You're black! I'm mad!" Mad to the max. Riggs may not know how to spell apartheid, but he knows whom he hates. He even knows how to strike a blow for American property values. When the Boers perforate his beachside shack, Riggs finds appropriate recourse. He kills their house...
...most of the new chapter sounded decidedly familiar. There was no talk of changing the body of law that lies at the heart of South Africa's apartheid. There was repeated mention of "group rights," a code phrase for continuing white control. The black Congress of South African Trade Unions dismissed the proposal as "old formulas." And despite the announced five-year deadline for reform, De Klerk, who is scheduled to take office in September, admitted, "I would not like to tie myself down to a timetable...
...last four years, however, a pesky group called the Harvard Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid (HRAAA) has shaken things up a bit by nominating its own pro-divestment slate of candidates to oppose the official candidates nominated by the Alumni Association...
THESE changes were largely targeted at defeating the group that nominated Tutu. Since 1986, alumni dissatisfied with Harvard's continuing attachments to the apartheid regime in South Africa have sought to elect candidates from the Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid (HRAAA) slate to the 30-member Board, which is elected by all University alumni...
...Board's jurisdiction over investment policy is unclear, and many Board members may have difficulty becoming accustomed to an adversarial relationship with the Corporation. Immediate divestment seems doubtful, although it would not be surprising if the administration gradually removed its attachments to apartheid over the next few years...