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...family ever to earn a degree. Not only had Charles taken time out for state visits abroad and his elaborate investiture as Prince of Wales in 1969, but he had also spent a term at University College of Wales at Aberystwyth, taking a cram course in Welsh to cool nationalist resentment in his titular fief. Even so, a large part of Charles' education at Cambridge was extracurricular. His happiest hours at Trinity were apparently spent performing in a series of comic revues, in which Charles showed a talent for daffy comedy and self-deprecating good humor...
...Angola's border with Namibia-the vast territory also known as South West Africa that Pretoria has ruled for almost 60 years under an international mandate. The assault force's goal: to deliver a crippling blow to SWAPO (for South West African Peoples' Organization), the radical nationalist organization whose guerrillas have been warring against the present territorial government in Namibia for eleven years...
...concepts of Western liberalism and humanism. He was persuaded to question the apartheid system with which he had been brought up; in a few years, he became one of South Africa's white liberals, writing for and later editing a newspaper that consistently spoke out against the Nationalist Party's efforts to subjugate the country's black majority...
Unrest is on the increase on the Israeli-occupied West Bank, with terrorist incidents leading to arrests and crackdowns. But this, like the diplomatic pressure Israel is facing, only seems to polarize the nation further. At the Wailing Wall last week, the ardently nationalist Gush Emunim held a rally and declared the founding of a new Jewish settlement on the West Bank at Karnei Shomron. The settlement had actually been started in January, but the rally was the Gush Emunim's way of proclaiming that settlement is continuing on the West Bank. Significantly, the Premier's office made...
...empire-building impulse common to most bureaucracies in a nation-building direction. Because of the language barrier separating French civil servants from the English corporate world, Quebec's bureaucrats are less immediately sensitive to conservative business influence than are most other bureaucracies. The consequence of rapidly creating a nationalist and non-business oriented civil service is that the bureaucracy itself is a powerful motor force for Quebec's independence...