Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that he led that the U.S. can claim to be the leader of the "free world" without inviting smirks of disdain and disbelief. Had he and the blacks and whites who marched beside him failed, vast regions of the U.S. would have remained morally indistinguishable from South Africa under apartheid, with terrible consequences for America's standing among nations. How could America have convincingly inveighed against the Iron Curtain while an equally oppressive Cotton Curtain remained draped across the South...
...historical circumstance, Africa is finally a beneficiary. The end of the cold war freed countries from 30-odd years of disastrous involvement in the superpowers' proxy conflicts. Old ideologies crumbled, taking with them the failed socialist methods of Marx and opening the way to capitalist reforms. The demise of apartheid gave the continent a huge psychological--and economic and political--boost. A generation of African leaders who grew up to despise the exploitation of postcolonial dictators and kleptocrats has begun to supplant them...
...arrived in South Africa this morning to be greeted by a handful of Islamic protesters proclaiming that ?Zionists? weren?t welcome. That?s not likely to be the last such discordant footnote, but it's not likely to detract from Clinton?s upbeat celebration of South Africa?s post-apartheid achievement...
...what of the apologies that have become the hallmark of the trip? Asked before Clinton?s speech about any further anticipated areas of presidential remorse, Mike McCurry replied ?Well, we haven?t gotten around to apartheid...
This week, students at more than 110 major college campuses across America are taking their education into their own hands in one of the biggest nationally-organized student movements since anti-apartheid in the '80s. This kind of student discussion is especially needed at Harvard, where no one seems to have a good answer for questions like: Why do we still have the Core? What happened with the grape vote? Or even, did we just almost go to war with Iraq...