Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Until the U.S. is certain the government of South African President F.W. de Klerk will take further steps towards breaking down Apartheid, the U.S. should not change its current policy of economic sanctions against South Africa, said U.S. Senator John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) to an Institute of Politics (IOP) Study. Group yesterday...
...There's got to be an adjustment process on both sides to keep it peaceful," said Kerry. He added that de Klerk must now set a timetable for talks and agree with Black leaders on deadline dates for progress on ending Apartheid...
...still need divestment. When [apartheid] is over, we'll reinvest," said council member M. Scott Murphy...
...deliver "a very important message." Some 3,000 demonstrators, massed in searing sunshine across from the Cape Town city hall, fell silent as she announced, "The A.N.C. has been unbanned." The gathering seemed stunned at the news that the African National Congress, the leading force in the fight against apartheid, outlawed and in exile since 1960, would once again be a legal participant in the nation's politics. Then someone shouted, "Amandla!" (power), the battle cry of the movement, and the crowd thundered back, "Awethu!" (is ours), and broke into a chant, "A.N.C. ! A.N.C...
...concern that the state of emergency is still in place and that some of the government's opponents would continue to be detained. It said it would review the prospects for negotiation, but in the meantime asked all countries not to do "anything to lessen the isolation of the apartheid regime...