Word: capes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is a well-worn jest in South Africa that the country's "colored problem" actually began about nine months after the first Dutch settlers landed at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652. However, in the strictly segregated society that has developed since, it is no laughing matter to suggest that the Afrikaners, who make up the majority of the 4.5 million ruling whites, are anything but racially pure. Thus when a South African academic raised the possibility again last week, he rattled racial skeletons in every Afrikaner parlor and dining room...
...rattles were caused by Professor Johan Leon Hattingh, director of the Institute for Historical Research at the University of the Western Cape and an Afrikaner himself. In an article published in his institute's journal, he claimed that many of the original Dutch settlers had dalliances with black women and that as a result, few Afrikaners could claim to be of unmixed white descent. Rather than charting white South Africa's family tree through the male line, Hattingh chose five early 18th century native women and traced their descendants. What he uncovered were some rather surprising branches. Among...
...engines are up and running!" Cheers rose from the ranks of scientists and technicians packed into the Cape Canaveral control center when the word came. Millions of Americans watching on morning television breathed a sigh of relief. Those red and orange flames flaring out from beneath the Columbia space shuttle, the immense cloud of steam created by burning liquid oxygen and hydrogen that drifted out to sea were emblems of success. The long delayed final test firing of Columbia's three main engines had at last gone off without a hitch. Columbia's moment of triumph made...
Comparatively short to other women players at 5 ft. 5 in., Horne has had to make the transition to guard this year after excelling as a forward in junior high, high school, and numberless years of basketball camp down on the Cape, near her home town of Weymouth, Massachusetts. The transition has been, to say the least, highly successful, though Horne would be the last to admit...
...South Africa's all-white parliament opened its annual session in Cape Town, hopes rose that this might at last be the year for dramatic new moves to ease racial tensions in the country. In his remarks during the opening debates last week, however, Prime Minister P.W. Botha failed to mention any of his longstanding proposals for reducing petty discrimination and improving the plight of urban blacks. Instead, he expounded on such politically safe slogans as the Communist menace and, to the parliament's surprise, announced that he was calling a general election for next April 29. With...