Word: central
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...march in Washington a week ago was called to protest U.S. policy--in Central America as well as South Africa. But while the march was reminiscent of protests staged against America's involvement in Vietnam, the comparison was superficial. What the press did was use easy labels from a hazy past to categorize something new and distinctive...
...November of 1983, the fall of my freshman year, I was one of a few dozen Harvard students who trekked to Washington on a cold, gray autumn weekend to protest U.S. intervention in Central America. There were about 30,000 of us at the demonstration, which to my inexperienced eyes seemed to be an endless crowd. But when we reached the Ellipse, the vast open spaces of the Mall made our numbers seem meager...
...giving of their time and themselves to the issues of the day--have been relatively few. That is even more the case with the anti-nuclear movement and especially the anti-war movement that has grown as the Reagan Administration has stepped up its not-so-cold war in Central America...
Four years ago Jesse Jackson was the Black candidate, the Central America movement was a cause for the disenchanted white middle-class, few people were interested in South Africa and the anti-nuclear movement seemed a trendy fad. Now the various victims of Reagan's policies are comming to see their common cause. If no media politicians besides Jesse Jackson recognize the common enemy and our common future, more power...
...Central to the illusion of apartheid, as decreed by the major segregation laws of the 1950s, was the fantasy that South Africa's blacks could be legally assigned to ten autonomous tribal homelands and then admitted to white South Africa only as migrant workers, not citizens. The realities of urbanization mock that fantasy, and anyone wandering around Cape Town or Johannesburg today can see blacks sitting next to whites in restaurants or lining up in the same banking queue to be served by a black teller. Nobody is surprised to observe a black traffic policeman ticketing a white...