Word: farm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When visitors arrive for an approved visit with Mandela, they drive through the prison farm's main gate and across its rustic grounds until they reach a fenced-in compound. After registering at a guard station, leaving cameras behind, guests are ushered into the parlor of a three-bedroom stucco cottage where Mandela has been incarcerated since recovering from tuberculosis...
...Africa's wine-producing region near Paarl, Nelson Mandela has been conducting a quiet diplomatic campaign. Last July he accepted an invitation from his adversary, former President P.W. Botha, for a historic face-to-face meeting. Mandela has since received a series of visitors at the Victor Verster Prison Farm, where he is serving his 26th year of a life sentence for plotting to overthrow white rule. Most of his powwows have been with leaders of rival antigovernment groups. But last week Mandela, 71, a leader of the banned African National Congress (A.N.C.), traveled under escort 30 miles to Cape...
Their findings were hardly encouraging. The Ursus tractor plant outside Warsaw, which once supplied farm equipment for the entire East bloc, was operating at only a fraction of its capacity. At the OMIG electronics factory, the building was crumbling and the technology 25 years old. "The Poles are doing very well with the tools they have," said Robert Galvin, chairman of Motorola. "But to be competitive they need entirely new operations...
...second North American tour in four years. In its last American campaign, the soviet team tallied eight victories against only one loss. This time around the results have been similarly positive--the club is coming off two straight wins against Boston College and the Maine Mariners, a farm club in the Boston Bruins organization...
HAVING digested all of that advice, along with half a bag of Pepperidge Farm cookies, we decided that we were ready to start a diet of our own. The following is a blow-by-blow account of the progress of that diet...