Word: masse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...turned to "armed struggle" under the guidance of Nelson Mandela after it was outlawed in 1960, but never mounted a significant threat to the government in either guise. Today the exiled A.N.C. is looking to change its fortunes. In collaboration with the new domestic antiapartheid coalition, called the Mass Democratic Movement, it has issued a proposal for peace talks with Pretoria. "The question of a negotiated settlement," said Thabo Mbeki, 47, the heir apparent to the A.N.C.'s ailing President Oliver Tambo, 71, "is very much on the agenda...
...nonviolent alternative to armed struggle has also failed to break apartheid. The M.D.M. stages isolated events in its "defiance campaign" but has been unable to put together a sustained strategy of mass civil disobedience that could successfully challenge the government's power. If thousands of blacks staged sit-ins, walk-ins and swim-ins at segregated institutions every day for months, the system could crack under the strain...
...strategically vital field of computers, no European firm is capable of competing with America's IBM or Japan's Fujitsu. "We know very well that European companies still are a long way away from having the critical mass necessary to stand up to the competition," concedes Gianni Agnelli, chairman of Italy's Fiat. Still, some success stories show that Western Europe has not been entirely eclipsed at the high-tech end of the market, where the battle for survival will be keenest. Airbus Industrie has emerged as Boeing's main competitor in the lucrative commercial aviation sector. While...
...burning of the forests goes on much longer, the damage may become irreversible. Long before the great rain forests are destroyed altogether, the impact of deforestation on climate could dramatically change the character of the area, lead to mass extinctions of plant and animal species, and leave Brazil's poor to endure even greater misery than they do now. The people of the rest of the world, no less than the Brazilians, need the Amazon as a functioning system, and in the end, this is more important than the issue of who owns the forest. The Amazon may run through...
...Columbia 4:00 Sept. 19 at New Hampshire 3:30 Sept. 23 WILLIAM & MARY 2:00 Sept. 29 at Brown 2:00 Oct. 3 at Bostpm College 7:00 Oct. 7 at Vermont 1:00 Oct. 12 CONNECTICUT 3:00 Oct. 14 at Cornell 11:00 Oct. 17 MASS ACHUSETTS 3:00 Oct. 20 DARTMOUTH 2:00 Oct. 11 PROVIDENCE 2:00 Oct. 24 at Yale 3:30 Oct. 28 PRINCETON...