Word: shantytown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last spring students protesting the University's $413 million in companies that do business with South Africa built a shantytown on campus. Rather than force a face-off, which could have led to arrests, the University allowed the buildings to remain standing through Commencement, giving them police protection and lighting and allowing the shanties to remain up even during Commencement. Pusey says he doesn't know how he would react to such a situation...
...Senator's tirade was prompted by Barnes' presence at a funeral procession for Rodrigo Rojas de Negri, 19, a Chilean-born resident of Rockville, Md., who had been killed during a general strike against the Pinochet regime on July 2. While visiting a shantytown near Santiago, witnesses said, de Negri and a Chilean student were doused with gasoline and set on fire by uniformed men with grease-blackened faces. Riot police later tear- gassed the funeral march. The U.S. had urged Chile to investigate the murder, and last week the army announced that it had arrested 25 soldiers...
...time president of the 40-member strong Conservative Club, Kashani was primarily responsible for building a Soviet gulag and a black tower in the Yard this spring, a few days after the the South African Solidarity Committee (SASC) erected a makeshift shantytown in front of University Hall...
About two weeks ago Spence sent a letter to the South African Solidarity Committee (SASC), which orchestrated the building of the shantytown in April, requesting that they remove the shanties "within a few days...
...SASC members said that their decision tokeep the shanties standing was inevitable. "Ithink it is likely that there will be some peoplewho are irritated by the presence of theshantytown, but what we have to ask these peopleis to realize what the shantytown is about andthat the reality of our investments in SouthAfrica translates directly into things like theshantytown," said Weissman