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...government's backdown reflected the growing strength of South Africa's black labor movement. Pretoria may have the military and police power to quell any serious civil disorder. Last week, for example, the government announced that ten more suspected terrorists had been killed. But prosperity in the country depends in large part on the labor of 6 million black workers. Many of them have become organized just in recent years, and their unions are now the closest thing to black political parties that exists in South Africa. In all, black and black-dominated unions have nearly doubled their membership since...
...descriptions of violence and protest which egg them on to protest. Congressional interest will dwindle without such public pressure--to the delight of the Pretoria government. As after the Sharpville and Soweto riots, South Africa is plotting to gain time out of the limelight to lick its wounds and quell internal and external dissent...
Observers of the Center agree that the Center needs a strong director to quell the feuding there, put its fundraising on track, and ensure that research and teaching are not ignored. Several say such leadership is essential to reestablishing what they call the invigorated atmosphere that Safran brought about during his first years there...
...fundamentals of creating sounds. "Disorientation is very important," says Tcherepnin. "You must learn to ride a horse instead of letting it ride you." Although Harvard's equipment may be no match for MIT's studios, Tcherepnin does not see this as a drawback. There are no plans to quell the creations of Paine Hall's budding Brian Eno's, which should give Tcherepnin time to learn more about his studio. "Don't give me anything new. I still don't know everything about what we've already got," he says...
...kangaroo court. I don't see it as some invidious attempt on the part of the administration to quell the divestiture movement," Raphael continues. According to Raphael and others familiar with the CRR, the body already incorporates many of the safeguards and checks its detractors seek...