Word: friends
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only President and the grandson of Khama the Great, one of the tribal chieftains who sought neutrality under Queen Victoria's protection a century ago. Sir Seretse suffers from diabetes and a weak heart, but these ailments have not prevented him from giving Botswana steady leadership. Says a friend: "Khama has been weak from the day he was born, but he always seems strong when we need...
...have come in part from some bruising years on the folkie circuit and a wrangle over a first album (released by Columbia in 1975). When the record came out, and bombed, Maggie and Terre were hiding out in Hammond, La., waitressing in the Magnolia Restaurant and living at a friend's Kung Fu temple, where they picked up a few rudiments of self-defense...
...administration. Gone will be the cosy rapport Carter shared with Jim Callaghan, who was very much an Atlanticist and who was even accused at times of being slavishly indulgent to U.S. interests. Gone too will be the close relationship with David Owen, Labour's outgoing Foreign Secretary, and his friend the British Ambassador to Washington, Peter Jay, who as Callaghan's son-in-law can expect his replacement to be one of the first acts of the Conservative government...
...given in the debate last time given by Professors Walzer and Higonnet. Prof. Walzer said he would have emphasized rather more the particular cruelty and the particular degradation that was involved in singling out a nation or a religious group or a race for systematic oppression. Why did my friend say "nation, religious group, or race" and not say "class"? Isn't genocide also the genocide of a class? I beg leave of good Dean Bowersock to translate the word "genus" in genocide as the killing of a class as well as of a race. Isn't the oppression that...
...assets there, only to find it had to trade the proceeds for long-term South African bonds, would surely find themselves in an intellectually incoherent and morally untenable position. All this would appear to be true whether the purchaser of the U.S. or other foreign corporate subsidiary were a friend of apartheid or a resister. Since it is doubtful that any resister would care to acquire an operating company in South Africa at the present time, it would seem more likely that the acquirer would be a firm that could live with apartheid more comfortably than the seller. Obviously...