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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rattles were caused by Professor Johan Leon Hattingh, director of the Institute for Historical Research at the University of the Western Cape and an Afrikaner himself. In an article published in his institute's journal, he claimed that many of the original Dutch settlers had dalliances with black women and that as a result, few Afrikaners could claim to be of unmixed white descent. Rather than charting white South Africa's family tree through the male line, Hattingh chose five early 18th century native women and traced their descendants. What he uncovered were some rather surprising branches. Among...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: All in the Family | 3/9/1981 | See Source »

...Leon Godchaux...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 2, 1981 | 3/2/1981 | See Source »

...average increases at Harvard's other graduate schools, 6 per cent lower than last year's Med School hike which changed the trend of very low increases that prevailed during years when lower costs and support from endowment income and alumni gifts helped keep tuition levels down, Dr. I. Leon Dogon, associate administrative dean at the Dental School, said yesterday...

Author: By Sarah L. Bingham, | Title: Tuitions Rise 14 Per Cent At Med, Dental Schools | 2/23/1981 | See Source »

...wrote in an essay about the Pudding Show that the returning alumnus "finds himself a stranger where once he was most at home. But if he revisits the College to witness a Pudding Play he is at once immersed in the fountain of youth. He is another Ponce de Leon." Ponce, you may recall, only thought he found his goal...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: The Roar of the Greasepaint | 2/19/1981 | See Source »

...Haig stall Jaworski? Cox's successor, Leon Jaworski, portrays Haig as a tough but ethical adversary in the ex-prosecutor's post-Watergate book, The Right and the Power, and now contends that Haig merely "had to do what Nixon told him to do and this is what he did." But former associates of Jaworski recall that his attitude was far different during the investigation. Insists one: "Jaworski used to rant and rave aplenty about Al Haig." When Jaworski threatened to protest publicly the White's House stalling over delivery of tapes, Haig pleaded for more time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Watergate Role | 12/29/1980 | See Source »

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