Word: extended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...process of dismantling further forms of apartheid. We have declared our readiness to remove apartheid, to share power up to the highest level of government. We did not undertake these changes to please the outside world. We undertook these reform measures because we believed that we must extend democracy. It is one of the most tragic phenomena of history. At a time when this government is extending democracy and can demonstrate that we took steps in one year that the U.S. could not take in 20 years, not only do we get no credit for it, not only...
...Senate, in direct opposition to President Reagan's proposed budget cuts, yesterday approved legislation that will extend the current budget for college financial aid by increasing funding for federal grants and loans...
Student activists have developed a sense of "cooperation with the local unions," says Harvard divestment activist Damon A. Silvers '86. Silvers and other Harvard students demonstrated their support of Local 26 three years ago, when the union held a strike over Harvard's refusal to extend contract negotiations. Late last month, Silvers and Richard Drayton '86 attended the opening negotiations for the Local 26 new contract, but were thrown...
Ever since its formation, the A.N.C. has remained unwavering in its agitation for a multiracial democracy in South Africa. During the past 18 months of turbulence, however, the outlawed movement has stepped up its activities, both subversive and diplomatic. Last year it decided to extend guerrilla operations to South African civilian areas, including white suburbs. Its first such strike, a bomb set off in a shopping center near Durban last December, left five people dead. The new strategy coincided with the creation of a broader- based leadership, as the previously all-black national executive committee expanded its membership...
...original sponsors of the event have agreedto extend their support in the fall, Paton said.The project has secured $5000 of financial backingfrom Miller Beer, $4000 from the UndergraduateCouncil, and approximately $2000 from AppleComputer, a new sponsor...