Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although there is a certain homogeneity--from city to city, hotels are designed alike, restaurants often use the same china, waiters and waitresses wear the same austere black and white uniforms--the government maintains diverse economic establishments that cater to different Cuban clienteles. There is the local bar in the town of Trinidad in which the only barstool is a concrete stoop. And then there is the Tropicana nightclub, still perhaps the most lavish in the world, where dancers in glitter and feathers parade across an outdoor stage set amid a grove of palm trees...
...Nkomo is a Karanga and Mugabe a Zezeru. Besides, accepting a cease-fire without necessarily gaining power through elections would damage morale among Front troops, potentially weakening the insurgent leaders' only sure source of power. Finally, the rising number of civilian casualties brought by the war has led many black villagers to distrust Nkomo and Mugabe...
ULTIMATELY, THE FUTURES of black Africa, the Tory government, and the seven million inhabitants of Zimbabwe will by affected by the success or failure of the London conference. Negotiators at the conference, though strained will continue. A possible compromise settlement might include the following elements: some role for the Front forces in the transitional Zimbabwe administration, free elections supervised by Britain or intenational bodies, a new constitution leading to true majority rule and an end to most white constitutional privileges...
Although no one was hurt Wednesday, three black pupils were slightly injured Tuesday, when about 15 white teenagers wearing ski masks attacked three buses with rocks and large metal bolts...
BOSTON--For the second day in a row, white youths pelted buses carrying black students as they drove through South Boston to attend classes at the high school...