Word: pariah
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...South Africa is already such a pariah. Few identify it with structural problems of the system. Vietnam was different. You had bad guys all over the place," says activist Ball...
...South Africa is already such a pariah. Few identify it with structural problems of the system. Vietnam was different. You had bad guys all over the place," says activist Ball...
...South Africa holdings, took over University Hall in 1972. The ban on investments in banks that loan directly to the South African government closely followed the resurgence of anti-apartheid student activities in 1979. And when the University casually tried to retract that ban on loans to the pariah state, an overflow crowd of 400 students at an open meeting in 1982 denounced the move and stopped Harvard's retreat from an already minimalist and indefensible position...
...even encouraged, that Harvard can play a role, however small, in the promotion of better conditions and eventual freedom for the oppressed people of South Africa. However, our full praise awaits solid evidence that the policy is in fact contributing to the eventual destruction of the pariah state's persecution of non-whites...
...army removed them with cranes. But as long as animal and human corpses decomposed in the open air, the threat of contamination increased, and with it the specter of cholera. Meanwhile, rats scurried around the dead bodies, awakening fears of bubonic plague. For days, vultures and wild-eyed pariah dogs roamed through the piles of rotting flesh, feasting...