Word: golds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last month, 177 Black workers died in a gold-mine fire, caused by the unsafe working conditions. An acetylene cylinder exploded, forcing workers to scramble out of the deep underground tunnels for safety...
...foreign policy. The U.S. should begin to send military aid to Black South African rebels. Congress has already chosen social change over small change by imposing the recent sanctions. Congress has realized that it won't matter how many Krugerrands it's stuffed in its pockets, if the gold mine's on fire...
Racially motivated violence, in the meantime, showed no sign of ending, as evidenced by a bombing in a Johannesburg hotel and continued unrest in the townships. Two memorial services were held for the 177 miners who died in the Kinross gold-mine disaster a fortnight ago. On a soccer field near the scene of the accident, where 3,000 miners had assembled for the ceremony, several hundred black protesters surrounded the pulpit. One man, a steward of the black National Union of Mineworkers, shouted through a handheld loudspeaker, "We are not going to pray with whites today. We've never...
...comrades." A great cry of "Viva Winnie Mandela!" echoed through the stadium as the wife of Nelson Mandela, the long-imprisoned black leader, arrived. "We accept that the time for talking has come to an end," she told the workers. "The moment you stop digging (Pretoria's) gold and diamonds, we will be free." Union leaders have asked miners to stay away from the pits this Wednesday as a gesture of protest and mourning...
...State President P.W. Botha declared in a speech in Johannesburg that those who propose sanctions, "with their stupid march of folly against my country, are playing into the hands of revolutionary forces and power-drunk cliques." But the Johannesburg stock exchange index hit a new high, as did the gold stocks index, and coal stocks jumped 10% to 20% following the news from Brussels. Many South Africans seemed ready to agree with the newspaper Business Day that "the fear of imminent disaster has now ) receded." That assessment could change, however, if the present will of the U.S. Congress prevails...