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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Student Assembly's pro statement on the Engelhard issue reads. "For ten years Charles Engelhard was the single largest investor in South Africa. He amassed a quarter-billion dollar fortune in the South African gold mines, where on average three black miners die every shift. Not an absentee investor, he was the only foreigner to sit on two labor recruitment boards for the mines...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Assembly to Hold Referendum Today | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

...parlayed an inheritance of $20 million into a $250 million fortune through his control of 15 per cent of the South African gold mining industry. South African gold miners earn on an average less than half the official South African poverty wage level and an average of three miners die per shift...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Feeling the Student Pulse | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

Mayor Moscone, whose father had been a guard at San Quentin and once showed his young son the gas chamber, had long opposed the death penalty. Last week the charges lodged against Dan White were carefully crafted to permit a court to decree that he must die for those murderous moments at city hall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Another Day of Death | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

...want to give them security, but I also know I need them to be a security for me. I know I needed someone to share my life with because it seemed to be so lonely at times. Its the fault of too selfish parent. I know if they must die for Socialism it will be a most honorable death because dying for Peace Justice, Freedom for all is worth the struggle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Anguishing Letters to Dad | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

They wrapped him in a sheet: "They did it out of panic and terror and ignorance and love," and Crews did not die, although most of his skin came off with the sheets...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: Like Georgia Mud | 12/8/1978 | See Source »

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