Word: fighting
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Moulder, who has written a paper on theincreasing number of Blacks attending SouthAfrican universities, says he hopes to fight thepernicious effect of apartheid on the educationalsystem by fostering integrated schools, whichSouth Africans call non-racial. Harvard supportcan help that process, he says...
...criticism is: `What do yousuggest? Do away with [private non-racial schools]or do you start somewhere?" Peter Cartwright,headmaster at the St. Cyprians School, told theCape Town newspaper the Weekend Argus in anarticle called "Togetherness." Cartwright believesthat non-racial schools like his are the beginningof the fight against apartheid...
...answer to the first question should clearly be "yes." Harvard's divestment has become both important and necessary in the fight against apartheid. If students do not vote "yes" on the first part of the referendum, they will miss what could be a crucial opportunity to tell the Administration that the student body supports divestment...
That view was challenged by Democratic Congressman Michael Barnes, chairman of the key House subcommittee on aid to Latin America. "The Administration is going to have a very tough fight on its hands on lethal aid," he said. He noted that the nations involved in the Contadora process (Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia and Panama) have renewed their efforts to seek a regional solution to the conflict in Nicaragua. At the same time, the Gramm- Rudman deficit-reduction plan will require cutbacks in foreign-aid appropriations; any increase to the contras could be at the expense of other nations...
Western observers assumed that the explosion was linked to an ongoing struggle between Lebanon's rival Christian factions. Less than a week earlier, 350 died when troops loyal to President Amin Gemayel defeated a militia force headed by Elias Hobeika, who fled to Paris and then to Damascus. The fight stems from Gemayel's rejection of a Syrian-brokered agreement that was supposed to have brought an end to Lebanon's eleven-year-long civil war. The accord was signed by leaders of Lebanon's Druze and Shi'ite Muslim militias and even by Hobeika, but was turned down...