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...Southwestern a Nashville-based company which sends college students around the country to sell bibles and encyclopedias, was banned from the campus in 1975, after it used a freshman dorm to hold a recruiting meeting...
Last year the company asked Harvard to life the recruitment ban, but the University refused the request Harvard then enforced the ban by forbidding Thomas J. Mallon, then a first-year. Business School student, from using his B-School dorm room or phone to solicit for Southwestern or from posting unapproved posters on the walls of Canaday Hall...
...efficient standards of the South African military, the operation was brutal. After dawn, 43 heavily armed troops of South Africa's seasoned, mostly black 32nd Battalion were airlifted across the Namibian border into the rocky terrain of the Cambeno valley, some 15 miles away in the southwestern corner of Angola. Then, supported by helicopter gunships, they destroyed a secret, unfortified supply base manned by an estimated 250 guerrillas of the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO). The toll: 201 guerrillas killed. Only three South African soldiers were lost...
There is little mention of exactly why ranchers in West Texas, Arizona and other areas of the southwestern U.S. want to remove invading species of mesquite. Ranchers go to the trouble of burning, chaining and chemically controlling their mesquite to provide a more favorable growing climate for range grasses. When grass is reestablished, the soil is broken up, more water percolates into the water table, erosion lessens, perennial streams are re-established and, quite often, even wildlife returns...
...occasion for Nkomo's ejection from the Cabinet was the alleged discovery of arms caches on property owned or controlled by Nkomo and ZAPU in the Bulawayo area, in the southwestern part of the country. Government security forces unearthed other buried weapons and military equipment near Gwelo in central Zimbabwe and Umtali in the east. The arsenal included 25 SA-7 missiles, more than 7,000 Soviet-made automatic rifles, rocket-propelled grenade launchers, machine guns and more than 2 million rounds of ammunition. Said Mugabe: "The arms were being hoarded to try to overthrow my government...