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...youth rebellion began on June 16, 1976, when the schoolchildren of Soweto, seething over the inferior instruction known as Bantu education, rose up in protest against the state's edict that their lessons must be learned in Afrikaans, the language of the ruling whites. The initial battles left more than 400 dead, but the uprising was never completely quelled. In 1984 the comrades of the still simmering townships rebelled again, setting off a series of violent protests that killed more than 2,000 over the next two years and prompted the government to impose a state of emergency. The turmoil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: The Lost Generation | 2/18/1991 | See Source »

...main allied push, when it comes, will set off large tank battles. Iraq's armored force is the fourth largest in the world. Its most modern battle tanks are the Soviet-built T-62 and T-72, both of which are considered inferior to the U.S.'s M1A1. In any case, the allies will not rely on tank-to-tank combat but will call in air strikes by A-10 Thunderbolts and missile-launching helicopters. In the desert there is no cover for armored vehicles, which churn up a dust cloud behind them wherever they go. "They move...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Strategy: Saddam's Deadly Trap | 2/11/1991 | See Source »

EVEN though more than 80 percent of Hungarian women work, they tend to hold inferior jobs and receive lower wages than men. In blue-collar fields women are discouraged from learning how to handle complex technical machinery; they are considered too fragile, both physically and mentally, to hold these taxing positions...

Author: By Maria Ginzburg, | Title: East European Sexism | 1/11/1991 | See Source »

...years, women will realize that communism's demise was not the solution to their problems. They will look around and see that they are still working at inferior jobs and are still being payed less than men, and they will ask, "What went wrong...

Author: By Maria Ginzburg, | Title: East European Sexism | 1/11/1991 | See Source »

Dumas is far from perfect: its students still test below the Illinois state average; its physical plant is fraying; services are bad. "They send me inferior hamburger, moldy bread, spoiled milk," fumes Peters. But Dumas, with its emphasis on bootstrap help, is light-years ahead of most black public schools in the U.S. "There are several hundred black schools in Chicago alone, and most of them are still doing terribly," says Gary Orfield, a visiting professor at Harvard's graduate school of education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Bus Doesn't Stop Here | 12/17/1990 | See Source »

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