Word: descent
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...over the circumstances of Biko's death will inevitably focus attention in the coming campaign on the government's racial policies. Even more crucial, perhaps, it may prove to be a final showdown in the 200-year-old cultural and political war between South Africans of English descent and the Dutch-descended Afrikaners. The Afrikaners' ability and willingness to adapt, if only to survive, are yet to be tested. But knowledgeable observers believe that a convincing electoral victory would allow Vorster to relax the apartheid laws and work toward peaceful settlements in Namibia and Rhodesia-much...
Another major concern among Hispanics is that the provision for $1,000 fines for those hiring illegals without work permits will prompt many employers to protect themselves by not hiring anyone of Hispanic descent. At their convention in Fresno, Calif., Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers union condemned the program as an attempt "to promote wholesale discrimination in employment against all workers who have dark skins and speak languages other than English...
...born Leopold Antony Stokowski in the Marylebone section of London in 1882, the son of a Polish cabinetmaker and a mother of Irish descent. They managed to scrape up enough money to send him to Oxford and to the Royal College of Music. He got a job as an organist in a London church, then moved to St. Bartholomew's in New York. In 1909 he became the conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony. He was young (27) and virtually untried, but magisterially handsome and already with the mark of genius upon him. Under the gaze of his stern blue...
...political and diplomatic success, Torrijos may find himself in trouble if he fails to improve economic conditions for the mass of Panama's 1.7 million citizens. Primarily mestizos (of mixed-blood descent), the Panamanians earn an average of $1,180 per year, one of the highest per capita incomes in Latin America. But much of that wealth is in the hands of rabiblancos (rich financiers) or Mercedes-driving urban entrepreneurs who live in the flashy high-rise condominiums of Panama City...
...clannish refugees simply moved back together. David Schwarz, a Polish-born naturalized Swede who edits the Journal of Immigrants and Minorities calculates that if the immigrants keep arriving at the current rate of about 20,000 a year, nearly a third of all Swedes will be of foreign descent by the year 2000. Warns Schwarz: "The big problem will come in the next decade when 100,000 to 200,000 immigrant children will be coming out of the schools without cultural pride but still without being Swedes. These people will not accept the menial jobs their fathers did. They will...