Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shanties built by anti-apartheid activists to protest the University's investments in companies that do business in South Africa. Jewett has handled the shanty dilemma with a certain moderation. But the shanties were built on more than the South Africa issue. Shanty dwellers have dubbed their ragged settlement the Open University. Jewett probably has made many students feel like they live in a more open university, but it's as if a door that was once shut has been opened only a few inches...
...successful conclusion of his negotiating effort to create a democratic Zimbabwe as his greatest accomplishment. The peer's effort came to fruition in late 1979, only after he convinced Thatcher to reverse her public position that the rebellion led by Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo was mere terrorism. The settlement--which even Carrington and many members of his negotiating team had believed was impossible, they later said--perhaps could have been achieved only by someone with the unflagging pragmatism and clearheadedness of Carrington, who has demonstrated time and again the willingness to abandon political theory for realpolitik efficiency...
...good settlement," said AT&T spokesman Herb Linnen. "Our energies now will be directed to reaching agreement with the CWA and its membership...
...week in the squatter camp of Crossroads, near Cape Town, where gangs of conservative black vigilantes were pitted against hundreds of young antiapartheid activists. At least 32 people were killed, and tens of thousands of shacks were burned, reputedly by the vigilantes, leaving as many as half of the settlement's 100,000 residents without shelter. There were riots in at least 15 other places, including the huge black township of Soweto, outside Johannesburg, where police clashed with a crowd of 8,000 who had gathered to attend a funeral that the government had declared illegal. All told, the number...
Among other matters, the congressional probers are investigating: Deaver's role in negotiating a settlement for the Daewoo Corp., a big South Korean steel- maker that violated American import restrictions; his efforts on behalf of Rockwell International to persuade the Government to buy more B-1 bombers; and his lobbying for Puerto Rico to retain tax breaks worth $600 million a year to the island's economy. So far, the investigations have publicly produced no evidence of wrongdoing. They have stirred up some smoke, however, by poking into Deaver's efforts on behalf of Canada concerning the issue of acid...