Word: namibia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...took eight years of painstaking diplomacy to craft the interlocking pieces of an international agreement to bring independence to Namibia, the last remnant of colonialism in Africa. It took just a week to unravel all that meticulous preparation in a bloody botch...
City agencies can no longer purchase products from companies that do business with South Africa or Namibia, the City Council decided last night...
...council approved a resolution introduced by Councillor Saundra M. Graham stating that the city "shall not support through the purchasing power of municipal government the social system of South Africa and Namibia that is founded on racial segregation...
...resolution directs City Manager Robert W. Healy to establish a purchasing preference policy that avoids contracting with South Africa-related companies and to maintain a list "of all persons doing business with or in South Africa and Namibia...
Calling apartheid "a social system whose policies are so antithetical to the principles of the people of Cambridge," the declaration defined that term as "a policy of racial exclusion and repression [that] is the official policy of the governments of the Republic of South Africa and Namibia...