Word: capes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...steps of St. George's Anglican Cathedral in Cape Town, 100 South African students gathered last week to hold a demonstration against apartheid and specifically against segregated university education. As a student picked up a loudspeaker, a policeman stepped forward and warned him not to speak. The meeting was peaceful but illegal because the students had not obtained permission, under the Riotous Assemblies Act, to hold a demonstration...
...police violence shocked students and the public alike and led to a series of angry demonstrations on most of the country's white university campuses. In Johannesburg, students carried placards that read, BLOOD, BATONS, BRUTALITY and WE WILL NOT BE BEATEN. In Cape Town, 400 students held another protest meeting on the cathedral steps and attracted 10,000 spectators. This time police broke up the meeting with tear gas but carefully kept their truncheons in their belts...
Tentatively scheduled for May or June 1975, the mission will begin with the launch of a two-stage Apollo Sat urn rocket from Cape Kennedy into a low (110 nautical miles) orbit above the earth. At a greater tilt to the equator than the orbits used during the U.S. moon shots, it will carry Apollo directly over the Soviets' Tyuratam cosmo drome in central Asia. From there, the Russians will loft a two-man Soyuz spacecraft into a slightly higher orbit of 145 miles. Apollo will then begin a sequence of maneuvers, lasting another day or so, to raise...
...central area and eastern coast. The state is in the midst of a tourist and real estate boom, as visitors and new residents pour in by plane, bus, car and camper. Many tourists who come to see the Disney show go on to visit Daytona Beach, Tampa, Miami, Cape Kennedy and other places-to the delight of hoteliers, restaurateurs, boat renters and other businessmen...
Gulf Oil Corporation, through its subsidiary Cabinda Gulf Oil, is the largest American operation in Portuguese Colonial Africa. (Portuguese Colonial Africa includes Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau and the Cape Verde Islands.) Gulf's operation in Angola is located on the 10.116 sq. km. Cabinda concession. Exploration in Cabinda was begun by Gulf in 1954. In 1957 Gulf received the concession from Portugal, and in 1968 production began. By the end of 1970, Gulf had invested $150 million in Cabinda and had plans to increase the figure to over $200 million. By 1971, 150,000 barrels were being collected...