Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...used to. "The first time I read the Twelve Steps, I thought, 'This is pure imperialism,'" says Slava, a Russian woman who has been sober for more than five years. A South African member who attended last weekend's San Diego convention said the only place there was no apartheid in South Africa during that brutal regime was at A.A. meetings. In Poland the first A.A. convention in 1984 attracted 27 groups from across the country; there are now 940 groups. Professor Wiktor Osiatynski, chairman of the Commission of Education on Alcoholism in Warsaw's Stefan Batory Foundation, says...
...wake of controversy engulfing apartheid-ridden South Africa, some students and alumni called on the University to divest of its South Africa-related stock...
...effort to turn the elections into something of a referendum on the issue, the Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid (HRAAA) began nominating candidates by petition to run against the official slate...
...stomach to go fightand kill people and that should be forgiven. Whatshould not be forgiven is not fighting for what webelieve in," said Judith Kauffman Baker '70-'71,who cited the struggle for University divestmentfrom South Africa. "We were congratulated byPresident Rudenstine for our backbone...but thoseof us fighting apartheid were met with stonyresistance for 20 years...
...four-year veteran (1958-62) of the bad old days of apartheid when I was with the U.S. embassy in South Africa, I continue to be amazed at the comparative civility of that country's metamorphosis [SOUTH AFRICA, May 8] from the skunk among nations to the butterfly of hope for oppressed peoples everywhere. If Nelson Mandela can steer his nation safely past the tribal bloodbaths that drench the African continent, he will have fathered the eighth wonder of the world...