Word: capes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vehicles had arrived to relocate all 60,000 residents of the settlement, and a squad of toughs had been brought in to add muscle to the operation. The rumors proved false, but by dawn, the men of Crossroads, a wretched black squatters' camp in the sand dunes just outside Cape Town, began blocking the roads around their shacks with makeshift barricades of logs, stones, oil drums, old tires and anything else they could find. Then they set the barriers ablaze...
...government decided to "consolidate" the black population of the western Cape in a new township called Khayelitsha, some eight miles from Crossroads. Many blacks complained that the program was a scheme to confine them to remote quarters they could not afford and, worse still, to pit legal black workers against illegal squatters. Two days later, Minister of Cooperation and Development Gerrit Viljoen spoke of "speeding up preparations" for the relocation of all Crossroads settlers to Khayelitsha...
...have about 40 students each year who would like to go directly into teaching but at the moment cannot do so," because of the strict state requirements, according to Martha I cape, director of the Office of Career Services...
...manned shuttle missions carrying purely military payloads. The precise launch time was not announced, to make it more difficult for the Soviets to track the flight. On the morning of the launch, which was pushed back a day because ice formed on the shuttle during a cold snap at Cape Canaveral, journalists were informed simply that the countdown was "proceeding smoothly." Finally, at 2:41 p.m., there was a more specific announcement: "T minus 9 minutes and counting." At 2:50 the shuttle lifted off flawlessly and disappeared into the clear winter...
...former bishop of Springfield-Cape Girardeau Freely admits that he is still in the process of "learning the neighborhood often excusing himself publicly for referring back to specific precedents in Missouri...