Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chain of Laws. There were plenty of white-supremacy laws already on the books when the Nationalists took office. Africans had long been denied the right to vote, compete for white jobs, live in white residential areas or buy property from whites. They could still marry whites, but extramarital intercourse between the races "was a criminal offense. But, discriminatory as they were, the laws that Verwoerd and his breeders inherited were nothing compared with the dozens of sweeping new laws they have passed since...
Even before registration was completed, the regime started building a chain of race laws with resounding names. There were, for example, the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act, the Immorality Amendment Act, the Separate Representation of Voters Act, the Bantu Authorities Act, the Group Areas Acts, the Reservation of Separate Amenities Act, the Native Labor Act, the Suppression of Communism Act, the Church Clause, the Twelve-Day Detention Clause, the 90-Day Detention Clause, and the 180-Day Detention Clause...
Murder in the Heart. On the surface, many Africans seem to be happy enough about apartheid. "We know what we have is ours, even if it is the gift of the white boss," says Ephraim Tchabalata, who has grown rich on a chain of dry-cleaning establishments and filling stations. The streets of the cities echo with the laughter of Africans, and the townships rock to the Beatle beat of guitars, strummed by young men wearing the cowboy hats that have become the latest rage. But all too often the smiles hide resentment. Says one African: "If I walk...
...Europe, to safety in a French Jewish orphanage. She was also one among thousands of Jewish children who survived the Nazis only to find themselves displaced and placeless in the wreckage of postwar Europe. They seemed anything but superfluous to British Novelist Charity Blackstock (Mr. Christopoulos, Monkey on a Chain). Working through a British Jewish relief agency, Mrs. Blackstock brought about 500 Jewish adolescents to England, installed them for brief holidays in Jewish homes. She enjoyed her work so much that when agency funds ran out after five years, she went to France to work in Jewish orphanages there...
...This chain of events was gathered primarily from students; the Cambridge police disclosed that there had been an incident Saturday evening, but declined to elaborate...