Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some civil rights spokesmen were quick to hail the decision as a landmark in the long fight to get the suburbs to share in solving the problems of the cities they surround. Margaret Bush Wilson, chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, called the finding "historic, bold and necessary to halt the constitutional movement in this country toward apartheid. " But other leaders of minorities, noting the extremely limited nature of the precedent and knowing the long court battles that almost certainly lay ahead, were much more guarded. "I'm pleased...
...embitter blacks most is the Land Tenure Act of 1970. The law divided the country in two. Rhodesia's 278,000 whites got the right to own land in the richest and most fertile half. (Ian Smith has two 10,000-acre spreads.) The other half, often untillable bush country, went to the country's 6.1 million blacks. Today more than half the blacks live outside the cash economy, bartering livestock or farm produce for the bare necessities of life. Fewer than 1 million have regular jobs. The average white wage is $8,080; the average black wage...
...When the three young men returned to their Brooklyn apartment after a night of drinking in 1973, an argument ensued over when Joseph Bush would pay his share of the rent. Bush pulled a .38-cal. revolver and shot Michael Lawrence Geller three times in the chest. Bush then allegedly threatened Melvin Dlugash, who Bush feared would be a witness unless he, too, were involved in the crime. So Dlugash fired five shots into Geller's head from his own .25-cal. pistol. Bush drew five to ten years after pleading guilty to manslaughter, but Dlugash went to trial...
UNITA's administrative capital, Huambo, fell on February 8, 1976, but the war was far from over. Guerrilla bases which had been operation against the Portuguese have been re-activated, and the military has moved back into the bush areas, which are inaccessible to Soviet tanks, and which provide dense forest cover against MPLA bomber attacks. Because the support base of UNITA is essentially the hundreds of deep villages which dot the vast Angolan countryside, the fall of Huambo has had relatively little effect on the functioning of the movement inside the country...
...state of Angolan civil administration. In southern cities like Huambo and Bié (formerly Silva Poôrto), white Portuguese held virtually every civil job before independence, all the way down to postal clerks and telephone operators. With many trained people gone into exile or into the bush, the problem of staffing a new government may be insuperable...