Word: regards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Globe quotes Tutu as saying in a speech last month in Boston that Americans have "a fundamental moral decision to make" in regard to their in- vestments in South Africa. Tutu is the general secretary of the South African Council of Churches. He will return to South Africa after Commencement, concluding a month-long tour of the United States
...students who negotiated the compromise "had no ambition to harm the donor, the donor's interests, the school, or the students who had made the original protest and consequently came to regard all sides of the proposition, even though they may have felt the protestors' demands were the appropriate resolution," Allison said last week...
...Leader Robert Mugabe, meanwhile, spent most of the week with his soldiers in the Mozambican bush. Mugabe's colleagues in the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) have nothing but contempt for Muzorewa, whom they regard as inept, indecisive and thin-skinned. Scorning him as "Queen Abel," a mere figurehead, they believe he will be unable either to end the war or gain real power from the country's 212,000 whites, who retain a strong behind-scenes voice in the government and have had outright control over the army, police, civil service and judiciary for ten years. Says...
...generation that watches too much TV as it is. The prospect of ten-year-old tube junkies using TV Guide as a syllabus is unsettling to parents who believe that serious learning comes from books. Teachers who have used one form or another of prime-time education, however, regard TV not as a "vast wasteland," in the memorable epithet of former Federal Communications Commissioner Newton Minow, but as a vast resource waiting to be tapped. One TV watcher who agrees is Minow himself, who now sits on the PTST board. Says he: "The most important educational institution in the country...
...doddering British commanders fatally underestimate the Japanese advance. Rubber barons regard war as "only a passing phase in business life." The womenfolk while away blackouts at movies like The Lady from Cheyenne and cavort at the beach as bombs fall across the bay. In the end, Singapore is a hallucinatory panorama of burning buildings, crossed telephone lines and panicky scrambles to get aboard any departing boat. It is a rich and poignant chronicle, and Farrell has researched it down to the last palm-oil statistic. If only he had been content to write history instead of fiction. For the book...