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...huge Coors advertising balloon floated aloft in the company's home state of Colorado last month, football fans booed in Denver's Mile High Stadium. Reason: for nearly nine months the Adolph Coors Co. brewery, the world's largest, has been the target of an unusual strike and boycott that are supported by a formidable, if somewhat incongruous alliance of activists that includes women's groups, Chicanos, homosexuals and civil libertarians. The issue is not wages but the right of privacy. In fact, the average salary at the company, which has been controlled for three generations...
Apart from those ceremonial high points, the birth of the new "republic" of BophuthaTswana last week was singularly lacking in the kind of euphoria that independence rites usually inspire. The second of South Africa's nine tribal homelands to be granted "independence," BophuthaTswana (literally meaning "that which binds the Tswana") is not recognized by any country in the world except South Africa and another homeland, Transkei, which became independent last year. BophuthaTswana's creation was opposed not only by many South African blacks but also by much of world opinion. United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim last week...
...creation of these quasi-independent states is a basic part of the Pretoria government's long-range survival plan for South African whites. The policy of "separate development" calls for dividing the country's 18.6 million blacks and 4.3 million whites into ten states, nine for blacks and one for whites. The whites' state will encompass 87% of South Africa's territory, including all 17 major cities...
...nine-year evolution of the buildings, from preconception to opening, has been documented by TIME Reporter-Researcher Georgia Harbison. Her account...
There are, as well, a French bakery, a bookstore, a flower shop, a chocolatier, an international newsstand-tobacconist, six other shops and nine eating places. These include a 24-hour English restaurant, whose waitresses seem to be on loan from Upstairs, Downstairs; a Hungarian rendezvous with an imported gypsy band; a Greek establishment with the salty flavor of Piraeus. Thus at Citicorp it is possible to leave work and, without stepping outside the Center, shop for a book or a new pipe, pick up a bag of custom-blended coffee, cash a check, raise a glass of wine and down...