Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...strapped for cash is the Soviet Union? So strapped that Moscow bent its long-standing opposition to apartheid last week by agreeing to sell $5 billion of diamonds over the next five years through an international cartel controlled by South Africa's De Beers Consolidated Mines. A Swiss subsidiary of De Beers will handle the sales and thus permit Moscow to deny that it is dealing directly with South Africa...
...years, the 69-year-old Communist Party has influence with the A.N.C. as well as powerful black trade unions, which seems likely to give it a considerable say in negotiations. The party's utopian ideal of economic equality holds a powerful attraction for the millions of blacks disadvantaged ) by apartheid. But Slovo says his first priority is enfranchisement of South Africa's blacks. "I don't believe that communism is on the agenda," he told TIME. He says he now favors multiparty democracy and a mixed economy...
...clergyman and a leading spokesman for mixed-race South Africans, the Rev. Allan Boesak was known for invoking his moral authority to speak against apartheid. That authority all but evaporated last week when he was forced to resign his ministry after the press disclosed that he was having an extramarital affair with a television producer, Elna Botha...
...group of ministers that was supposed to make sure the Corporation toed the Puritan party line, the Board now has little power and meets only five times a year. Things have been more exciting recently, however, as a pro-divestment alumni group, the Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid, has elected several dissident members to the Board, including Tutu...
...economic sanctions against South Africa and signing the 1990 Civil Rights Act, now moving toward the Senate floor. Bush gets a bye on the first test: though he is opposed to sanctions, Congress in 1986 prohibited lifting the bans on trade until South Africa takes specific steps to dismantle apartheid. Bush reminded everyone of that three times at a press conference in Alabama last week...