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...began as a heated debate over an unexpectedly low pay raise for black workers at the West Rand mining complex, one of the richest gold veins in the world. When some of the men refused to enter the mines and others symbolically laid down their shovels, white overseers called out the mines' internal security police. Using riot guns, armored vehicles, tear gas and snarling Alsatian dogs, they attempted to disperse the angry crowd. By evening the confrontation had erupted into a full-scale riot, as 4,000 blacks raged across mine property, stoning the cars of white officials...
...graduates, as well as by sociologists, educators and demographers, suggests that this class faces a difficult future-and knows it. "It's clear the class of '82 is entering the world during an era of prolonged austerity and retrenchment," says Peter A. Morrison, director of the Rand Corp.'s Population Research Center. "The class of '64 in a sense was the last one to get through a wide pipeline, when things worked well and the economy was in good shape." Says Jonathan Cole, who graduated from Columbia University in 1964 and now teaches sociology there...
...main qualification of Ambassador to France Evan Galbraith "is that he speaks French and is a friend of Giscard d'Estaing, who is out of power and is considered the archenemy of [Francois Mitter rand] the man who is running the country." Ambassador to Italy Maxwell Rabb is an "eminent lawyer who speaks no Italian." As for Ambassador to Mexico John Gavin, he is "a Hollywood actor, and not a very good one at that...
...What has happened to Joe is symbolic of the plight of Black South African journalists," current Nieman Fellow Ameen Akhalwaya said yesterday. "More than any other journalist, he has shown the courage that the award stands for." Akhalways is a political reporter for the South African Rand Daily Mail...
DIED. Ayn Rand, 77, novelist and essayist, whose opinions inspired generations of conservatives, irritated liberals and entertained millions; in Manhattan. Born in Russia and educated at the University of Leningrad, she immigrated to the U.S. in 1926 and wrote the bestselling 1943 novel The Fountainhead, the story of an architect's uncompromising integrity. Yet her distinctive views were perhaps best summarized in the title of a 1965 work, The Virtue of Selfishness...