Word: furore
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...proposed to travel to Lusaka, the capital of Zambia, to meet with the outlawed African National Congress. Botha responded with anger. "The government has expressed its strong viewpoint on discussions with the A.N.C., which is a murderous organization," a spokesman for his office said. The government had raised a furor a week earlier when it seized the passports of eight Afrikaner students who had scheduled a trip to Lusaka, and it was widely expected that some similar action would be taken against the seven clergymen...
...time when the world is trying to cope with international terrorism, superpower tensions and starvation in Africa, has so much furor erupted over what is, after all, merely a change in a soft-drink formula...
...with Pepsi-Cola, as an industry watcher pointed out--one that tastes like Coke and one that tastes like Pepsi. And since the soft-drink maker will still be selling new Coke, none of the millions of dollars spent to launch that product has been wasted. If anything, the furor created by the flavor change has made Coke more of a household word than ever...
...When the judge ordered thousands of students bused across neighborhood lines and created nine new school districts, parts of the city erupted in riots and demonstrations. The fighting subsided, but schools deteriorated as whites and middle-class blacks fled. Garrity, an unassuming, private man who seemed puzzled by the furor he was creating, stuck to his course, issuing more than 400 desegregation directives so complex that some students were carted to a different school every year. Local control and interest in the schools all but vanished. By 1981 the system was such a mess that it had gone through three...
...bishop's warning that the images of bloodshed would be used against the black protesters was soon borne out. In the face of the international furor over the government's harsh crackdown, Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha (no kin to President Botha), sounding a theme that would be invoked repeatedly by the government, declared that South Africa would not allow its future to be decided by "perpetrators of violence who burn people alive...