Word: desmond
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...army the largest and best-equipped in black Africa. Yet all that might has not blunted the will of the Eritrean rebels. The bloody, seesaw war, largely forgotten in the West and even in Africa, has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives. TIME Reporter Edward W. Desmond recently traveled to Eritrea and filed this report...
Grinning broadly, their fists clenched in the air, six United Democratic Front leaders were greeted with cheers and shouts by the crowd that had gathered at Johannesburg's Central Methodist Church. As the leaders were embraced by Nobel Laureate Bishop Desmond Tutu, six other U.D.F. members received a similar reception 300 miles away in the coastal city of Durban. The occasion: the unexpected dismissal of treason charges against the twelve by the South African government. Though four of the 16 people on trial still face charges, the collapse of the case against most of them was a rare victory...
...favor the ruling People's National Congress. Indeed, the margin of victory was improbably large, with the P.N.C. taking 76% of the vote and six opposition parties dividing the rest. The win gives the P.N.C. 42 of the 53 seats in the national legislature and allows President Hugh Desmond Hoyte, 56, to remain in office for five more years...
...group, which calls itself the Divestment Singers, displayed a portrait of Bishop Desmond Tutu, the South African spiritual leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner. Beneath the portrait was the legend, "Remember My People...
...late last night about 150 passersby had signed a letter to South African Bishop Desmond M. Tutu denouncing the Reverend Jerry Falwell's stated support a month ago of the South African government...