Word: soweto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past 20 years--and particularly since the Soweto riots of 1976--the actions of activists challenging U.S. corporate involvement in South Africa have frequently grabbed headlines in the nation's press. Candlelight processions, violent demonstrations, and even occasional institutional decisions to divest have kept the issue continuously, if sporadically, in the country's news. Yet determining the effects of this activity has been difficult at best. Has the movement simply sparked public awareness and soul-searching, or has it really affected American corporate involvement in South Africa...
Moten said that the group chose to fast seven days to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the 1976 Soweto massacres, when South African security forces killed a large, unknown number of protesting Black students...
...last week Bok said a personal plea to the University Treasurer from a Black South African leader played a role in the Corporation's decision. According to Bok, a man identified only as Dr. Motlana, a member of the Soweto Committee of 10, urged George Putnam '49 to approve a controversial 1979 Citibank loan...
Putnam told Motlana that he "would be glad to speak up on behalf" of the $250-million loan, part of which was earmarked for construction of a private hospital in Soweto...
...that market forces have diverted distribution of a drug that will cure leprosy to use instead in treating tennis elbow. The jokes range from the incisive to the tasteless, and even the racist and antiSemitic. An Op-Ed column headlined COLORED PEOPLE MUST SUFFER TO PROSPER is signed "Thomas Soweto," deftly mocking the free-market views of Thomas Sowell, a conservative black economist who contends that racism is not the major cause of economic deprivation for blacks. Help-wanted ads have executives soliciting young male proteges and "preteen women...