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...pair of freewheeling tax attorneys, along with Irwin Meyer and Stephen Friedman, two producers of the hit Broadway musical Annie. According to federal investigators, the four built a tax-shelter empire selling interests not only in American coal but also in distribution rights to European films and a Namibian diamond mine. They funneled investment money through a string of paper corporations with headquarters in the U.S., and such offshore havens as the Cayman Islands and Curaçao. Although the current charges concern only the coal caper, which involved write-offs totaling $150 million, sources close to the case estimate...
ALLARD K. LOWENSTEIN was a man who fought all his life against the scourges of poverty, intolerance and violence. He joined the civil rights movement in the '40s, worked with Martin Luther King in the '60s, and spoke out early against South African apartheid and for Namibian independence. As an antiwar activist he won his greatest success, turning his lonely struggle to "Dump Johnson" into a mass movement. This feat drew from Robert Kennedy praise, "For Al, who knew the lesson of Emerson and taught it to the rest of us: `... if a single man plant himself on his convictions...
...have discussion groups and exchanges of views," says Bernard Kamwi, a Namibian teacher. "We talk about building a just society, how to eradicate the capitalist system, how to give the toiling masses of Namibia a say in what is happening...
...island. Sex is not a problem, the teachers insist. "They are told the facts of life, but there is no formal sex education as such," said a Mozambican instructor. Girls are free to talk with women teachers about the problems of puberty. "They have biology classes," said a Namibian ideologue, "but as elsewhere in the world, the kids do not apply biology to themselves." He may be right. Since the program is so full and disciplined, there would appear to be little time for love among the grapefruit trees...
...heavily among his fellow Ovimbundu (40% of the country's population) and other southern Angolan tribes, which have deep-rooted hostility toward Neto, a mixed-race assimilado, and the Cubans. He has also received substantial backing from South Africa, which wants UNlTA's help in controlling the Namibian guerrillas of SWAPO (Southwest African People's Organization), who operate from base camps in southern Angola...