Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...South African government warns Black residents of the "personal sacrifices" they must make when they decide to protest apartheid. The staff seems worried that in the case of the Law School, protests not enough of these sacrifices are being made. For the staff, the protests are simply "slumber parties" until police start cracking skulls. Only then, the staff feels, would the illegal sit-ins be justified. Only then do the protesters really show their unquestioned commitment to diversity, the majority believes...
President F.W. de Klerk's policy of dismantling apartheid has reaped its biggest foreign policy reward to date. Meeting in Luxembourg last week, the 12-nation European Community voted unanimously to lift the group's remaining economic sanctions against Pretoria. As soon as it is formalized, the move will end a five-year-old ban on the importation of South African iron, steel and gold coins that had accounted for $700 million in annual trade before the embargo went into effect...
Such attention, he says, has not bothered him. Steiner dismisses the accusations implicit in such chants--that he or Bok or Harvard is acting to help the apartheid government--as "pretty silly...
...decades, South Africa's policy of apartheid has rested upon a set of rigid laws reserving 87% of the land for the nation's white minority and requiring strict housing segregation. Last week President F.W. de Klerk introduced legislation that would repeal all racial restrictions on land ownership and permit all South Africans to live where they choose...
...WORLD: Apartheid's last victims...