Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid (HRAAA) is attempting to muster its forces to fight the proposals, which would give Harvard an expanded role in the annual election to the 30-member Board...
LAST week, I was acting the part of the noble student activist, doing my small part to help end apartheid in South Africa. As part of a series of errands I needed to run for Harvard and Radcliffe Alumni/ae Against Apartheid, I tried to take a cab into South Boston. Insensitive to the fact that racial tensions still run high in the section of Boston made infamous by its violent anti-busing protests of the 1970s, I gave the address to my cab driver, who was Black...
...That promise showed both neighborliness and self-interest, since the dam's chief customer will be South Africa. Altogether, the encounter may have reflected a new willingness on the part of Pretoria to pursue conciliatory policies toward its black neighbors abroad while continuing to crack down on opponents of apartheid at home...
...Education is the soft underbelly of apartheid and means different things to different people," Cooper said. "For the government it means more domination, more enslavement to make Black men and women to think they are only good as manual laborers. But this has created resentment." That, in turn, has radicalized the few Blacks allowed to enroll in college, Cooper said...
...really fresh and really anxious," she says of her preparations for upcoming confrontations with a strong Soviet, Tatyana Samolenko, and Rumanian Paula Ivan. There will be no rematch with South Africa-born Budd. Slaney's Olympic nemesis was tastelessly hounded into retirement earlier this year by foes of apartheid. Slaney recently has been on antibiotics for an unspecified illness, but her once fierce confidence has returned, this time tempered with the realization that dreams are oh so fragile. "Cross my fingers," she has been saying often these pre-Olympic days. "Knock on wood...