Word: lesotho
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Members of the right-wing Conservative Party hotly denounced the attacks and called for Botha to retaliate by cracking down on the rebels and their supporters. Later in the week Lesotho, one of the neighboring countries the South African government has long accused of harboring A.N.C. rebels, claimed that its territory had been raided by South African commandos who gunned down nine A.N.C. members and sympathizers. Officially, Pretoria denied any involvement, but, warned the State Security Council, South Africa's neighbors "must be urged to realize that if this menace is allowed to continue, all the people of southern Africa...
Food had become scarce, medical supplies were running out, and gasoline was being rationed. When heavily armed troops last week encircled government buildings in Maseru, the capital of Lesotho, the country appeared to be tottering on the brink of a coup...
...protégé, Desmond Tutu. Impressed by Huddleston's work on behalf of the country's oppressed, Tutu abandoned a career as a schoolteacher to enter the Anglican church in 1958 and study for the priesthood. He worked in parishes in Britain and in 1978 was appointed a bishop in Lesotho. That same year he was named general secretary of the 13 million-member South African Council of Churches (SACC). In 1984 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his antiapartheid efforts, and this year he became the first black Anglican bishop of Johannesburg, the church's most important diocese...
...gift-laden friends, barely back from some corner of the globe, re-immerse themselves in the mundane rhythm of response papers and tutorial reading, their stories of the halcyon life they had shuttling from host family to host family in Lesotho draw us further down the path of study-abroad envy. Of course, mostly we hear about alcohol. We hear stories about our friends getting smashed and hooking up with that girl in tight jeans and pointy, Euro-trash boots. Or about how wine is really cheap in Italy, beer in Germany, or Ouzo in Greece. A friend of mine...
...with ethical production methods and meant to create sustainable employment in developing countries. "We wanted to show that you can make a for-profit business where everybody in the chain is treated well," she says. With factories set to roll in Peru and Tunisia, and a third planned for Lesotho, the Edun range, a partnership with U.S. label Rogan, will include everything from jeans to chiffon dresses. But Hewson isn't relying on altruism to sell clothes she describes as "more sensual than bling." "We want these clothes to sell on their own merit, because they are beautiful and well...