Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...effort to make its slate more competitive with that of Harvard's official alumni organization, Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid (HRAAA) officials said yesterday that they plan to nominate only three candidates for this year's Board of Overseers elections...
...Catholic priest, Michael Pfleger, whose parish is located in one of Chicago's poorest neighborhoods, declared, "If George Bush wants to set deadlines, he could set deadlines on unemployment, apartheid, homelessness. He has been hell-bound for months on war. I have never heard a President talk so much war talk in my lifetime." During Vietnam, American labor unions and blue-collar workers tended to support the war. This time, the presidents of * nine major unions argued for a peaceful solution...
...told. But fewer than 15 percent of Kuwaitis were allowed to vote; most of the people living in Kuwait were temporary immigrants working in Kuwait for low wages. What few civil liberties ever existed for citizens were revoked in 1985. And in Saudi Arabia, a land of gender apartheid, half of the population--the women--cannot even go out of doors without a male relative, much less exercise any political rights...
Other Old Paradigms: Fidel Castro, apartheid, the American Century, cigarette smoking, labor unions and strikes, alcohol, CBS News, charisma, knowledge (as opposed to information), blood-feud revenge, corporate loyalty and paternalism, Northern Ireland, Mario Cuomo (the politician as a Frank Capra movie) and letter writing...
...benefit by this kind of exchange; this is surely not the internationalization as the President intended it. Dean Epps probably should have thought about these things before giving permission for extra-large posters on an issue that cannot be compared to freedom of religion or the evil of apartheid. David S. Landes Coolidge Professor of History and Professor of Economics