Word: calme
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Several factors seemed to be behind the crackdown. To begin with, Alexandra lies just six miles north of downtown Johannesburg, where most news organizations are headquartered, giving reporters easy access to the story. Officials did not want Alexandra swarming with journalists who would upset the picture of relative calm that for no apparent reason other than simple exhaustion on the part of protesters, seems to have settled over South Africa in recent weeks. Moreover, the mile-square township is hemmed in on three sides by light industrial complexes and on the fourth by white suburbs. The outbreak of violence...
Such reassurances did not calm the fears of black leaders. The civic association called a rally in the local sports stadium, attracting more than 30,000 of the township's 100,000 residents. The crowd demanded the withdrawal of the security forces. The police commander agreed to remove patrols from the township streets and to permit Bishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace prizewinner, to speak in the stadium. "I know we all want freedom," Tutu told the crowd, "but we must get it in a disciplined manner." The throng returned to their homes peacefully. Later in the week, however, Tutu...
...People are getting ready to enter into exams and things are getting a little more calm around here. We're just waiting on the president," Rafshoon said...
...entire student body--assembled, many of them wearing paper hearts with the words CHOOSE LIFE. They hugged one another, cheered their athletic teams and sang We Are the World. The lyric "We're saving our own lives" understandably brought many to tears: the rally had been called to calm the student body after three youths at Bryan High School on the outskirts of Omaha committed suicide within five days...
Hodel, a former head of the Bonneville Power Administration, took the onslaught with outward calm and an occasional smile. Iacocca was fired, he suggested, chiefly because he got too big for his britches. "The statue is more than Lee Iacocca," he said. Hodel's justification was, at best, a bit thin. He insisted that there was a "potential conflict of interest" between Iacocca's role as chairman of the governmental advisory commission and his leadership of the private Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, the group that has been spectacularly successful in raising some $233 million for the restoration projects...