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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...largest black labor union is the National Union of Mineworkers, whose 150,000 members toil in the vital gold and diamond mines, which provide more than half the country's foreign-exchange earnings. An additional 50 smaller ; black labor groups represent everyone from waiters and metalworkers to supermarket cashiers. Individual unions are grouped into labor federations, the largest of which is COSATU, the Congress of South African Trade Unions, with 500,000 members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa the Rise of Black Labor | 7/21/1986 | See Source »

Both women are currently travelling in Europe and could not be reached for comment. The prizes awarded to the winners of the competition included $500, an all-expense paid trip to New York to meet the professional woman of their choice, and a 10-diamond "I" pin, said Wanda Bolton, Glamour's competitions editor...

Author: By Maia E. Harris, | Title: Magazine Lauds 2 at Harvard | 7/18/1986 | See Source »

...LIFE, Diamond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Best Sellers: Jun. 30, 1986 | 6/30/1986 | See Source »

...they've got a spiffy field of their own next to the varsity baseball diamond...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Determined Mounds-keeper | 6/5/1986 | See Source »

After that promising start, Levine used his Bahamas connection again and again. He called Meier collect from public pay phones during his lunch hour, using the alias "Mr. Diamond." The owners of his stocks were listed as International Gold Inc. and Diamond Holdings S.A., which were dummy corporations that Levine had set up in Panama. When he needed to confer with Meier in person, he flew to the Bahamas under a fictitious name, using plane tickets that he purchased with cash. So as not to arouse the suspicion of his wife, he never mentioned his out-of-town trips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dark Clouds Over Wall Street | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

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