Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...immense risk in seeking vindication is that you will actually worsen your own reputation." But Editor Gene Roberts of the Philadelphia Inquirer contended, "Westmoreland proved that you can cost a major TV network millions of dollars and tie up its management and journalists for months in litigation. The settlement won't diminish these cases, it will increase them...
...country's highest since the Depression. The pound, worth $1.44 a year ago (and $2 in 1981), sank to $1.07 last week. A miners' strike, which has cost the country an estimated $3.8 billion and divided the nation, will go into its second year in March; a carefully crafted settlement fell apart while Thatcher...
...rumors raced through the maze of jam-packed shanties like a burning fuse: a fleet of government vehicles had arrived to relocate all 60,000 residents of the settlement, and a squad of toughs had been brought in to add muscle to the operation. The rumors proved false, but by dawn, the men of Crossroads, a wretched black squatters' camp in the sand dunes just outside Cape Town, began blocking the roads around their shacks with makeshift barricades of logs, stones, oil drums, old tires and anything else they could find. Then they set the barriers ablaze...
...South Africa, and its history a parable of the agonies and anomalies of apartheid. For ten years, blacks have streamed into the area and patched together flimsy huts out of odds and ends--bits of wood and plastic, old garbage bags, corrugated iron and cardboard. Most of the settlement's residents were "illegals" from the impoverished government-created tribal homelands of Transkei and Ciskei, which offer no employment, no money and no food. Almost as fast as the blacks kept pouring in, the authorities kept pushing them back, smashing their shacks and returning the illegals to the homelands. Despite...
...Khmer Rouge, a group that many Kampucheans still despise for their atrocities while running the country between 1975 and 1978. ; The latest refugee contingent will probably not be sent to Khao I Dang, the main Thai camp for Kampucheans, nor are the Thai authorities eager to establish a special settlement. Said a Thai army major at the border, perhaps overoptimistically: "We will keep them for a while. Then we will send them back...