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...European corporations that enabled the white minority government in South Africa to continue the policies of systematic racism and oppression that inevitably resulted in Sharpeville. The liberation movements in Southern Africa have called for the withdrawal of all foreign corporations, and yet, Harvard continues to advocate that U.S. firms retain their influence in South Africa in order to marginally improve the lives of a few black workers...
...liveliest game around, town meetings live on. The population has increased enough in some towns that the system has been modified--Lexington, for example, has representative town meetings, with 200 residents elected to speak for the other 35,000. Other smaller towns, like Bedford and Concord, still retain the pure "direct town meeting" form...
Jazz musicians of Byard's generation found a variety of ways to cope with the lean years of the late '60s and the rampant commercialism of the '70s music scene. A very few were lucky enough to retain some following without compromising their musical ideals. Many were forced to resort to a) "crossing over" to the lucrative popular music field; b) giving up on music and starving as recluses; or c) simply dying young. Jaki Byard represents a growing number of jazz figures who have averted both personal and artistic disaster by "taking it easy" and weathering this hyper decade...
...about protecting U.S. interests in Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Taiwan and other places. Sadly, many of the people who came away from the White House that night felt the President was spending his energy explaining and justifying America's decline rather than creating a realistic policy to retain respect and influence...
...known as Arunachal Pradesh) and offered to negotiate a mutually acceptable border in Kashmir. The Indians, whose call for assistance was answered by an outpouring of arms from Britain and the U.S., refused to discuss the matter until the Chinese completely departed from Aksai Chin, which they still retain. Today a few Chinese and Indian troops still face each other in the mountain passes of the former battleground. And on the official maps of both countries, the borders are still drawn in exactly the same places they were before China's invasion...