Word: capes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...preserve minority rule? That seems unlikely: it would be, in fact, an open invitation to interference from his neighbors or from any foreign power that happened to fancy a little low-risk mischiefmaking. Geopolitical predictions in Africa have always been risky; now the realities have all but reached the Cape of Good Hope. If, by the end of 1978, Vorster has failed to make a significant step toward ending his country's discrimination against the non-white 83%, he may well face for the first time the threat of invasion...
...Uganda's dictator Idi Amin Dada regularly threatens to dispatch a "suicide battalion" to Rhodesia or South Africa; so far, however, Amin has limited the Libyan pilots who fly his Soviet-supplied MIGs to making practice bombing runs on an island in Lake Victoria that he has renamed "Cape Town...
...black honor guard, were on hand to greet Henry Kissinger as he arrived in the South African capital of Pretoria late last week on the third stop of his latest effort at shuttle diplomacy. All week long sporadic rioting had continued in the nonwhite townships around Johannesburg and Cape Town, and a department store in downtown Johannesburg was fire-bombed-the first such act of urban terrorism in the country's history. Shortly before Kissinger's blue and white 707 touched down, police fired at demonstrators in Johannesburg's Soweto township, killing six students and wounding...
...number of women admitted to the College has nearly doubled in the past five years. "The era for Harvard to be admitting women on an equal basis is long overdue," Dr. Charles F. Ferguson '29, vice president of the Harvard Club of Cape Cod, said yesterday...
Whites Threatened. Hardest hit last week was Cape Province, where 15 "coloreds" (as South Africans of mixed blood are known) were killed in a single night by police fire; among the victims was an eight-year-old boy. The incident occurred one day after Prime Minister Vorster had repeated in a speech to his party's faithful that colored people would never sit in South Africa's all-white Parliament. In the city of Paarl, 35 miles from Cape Town, the main business district was closed after hundreds of youths stoned shops and cars and tried to storm...