Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were Bishop Tutu (Brazil to South Africa); Liberty Mhlanga (Cape Town to Kenya); Margaret Pusch (Nassau to Brazil) and Maria Ruiz-Merroth (Nassau to Venezuala). They spoke on everything from the farming practices of the Massai in Kenya to third world debt problems, the Gulf of Columbia-Venezuela conflict, apartheid (or Apart-Hate as Desmond Tutu prefers to call it) in South Africa and Los Angeles and world population growth. In a way, they were the equivalent of visiting professors, though they would be embarrassed to be called such a thing...
...left, Ruth Fitzpatrick, leader of Women's Ordination Conference, finds it "pitiful that after nine years of work, this shoddy piece of paper is the best they can come up with." Feminist Schneiders argues that "you cannot say, 'Sexism is a sin except when we practice it.' Sexual apartheid is not acceptable, and it's not going to get acceptable by explaining it or claiming that it was God's idea...
...less success with a law giving amnesty for undetailed politically motivated crimes. The bill was vetoed by opposition M.P.s. De Klerk could still railroad the bill through his President's council, circumventing Parliament. But that, said the a.n.c., would only demonstrate his desperation to cover up the crimes of apartheid...
Abstaining on most resolutions concerning investments in South African companies, the Committee said it would wait for more substantial change to occur in South Africa's apartheid policies before diverging from current patterns of divestiture...
While the South African said he was impressedby the anti-apartheid campaign at Harvard, he saidthat higher education in the United States is notas well integrated as in South Africa...