Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year ago, on June 16, the fury and frustration of South Africa's blacks exploded in rioting at Soweto, the huge (estimated population: 1.2 million) amalgam of segregated townships on the outskirts of Johannesburg. The violence -and counterviolence by South African security forces-spread to other black ghettos. By the time the "disturbances" subsided in December, 618 had died, nearly half the number of lives lost in Ulster's eight years of bloody civil strife...
...more years or even decades. As one white editor says, "Soweto riots could just become an annual event." And yet the present situation-a continuing white sense of living under siege, a continuing black fever of resentment-cannot go on indefinitely without serious damage to the country. Fear would spread like slow poison (and, among other things, would deter investment from abroad). Sooner or later, the jailed always deform the jailers...
...Chicago), but the hottest place in town is Le Jardin. Boston has the handsome new Fan Club, of which one patron says proudly, "It's trashy enough to be New York, only straighter." Miami has the pulsating Palm Room in the fashionable Palm Bay Club. Disco-mania has spread to the suburbs of New York, Los Angeles and Atlanta, to Holiday Inns and department store basements. There is hardly a disco owner who is sure that his place will last, given the mercurial nature of the trade. Few, however, doubt that discomania is here to stay. As Himmel puts...
Toward Compromise. None of this means that the nation's long-range energy squeeze is less threatening. The U.S. is still importing more than half of its oil, and prices could rise above their already inflated levels. Reports spread last week that Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil exporter, had decided to raise its prices 5% by July 1. That would bring its quotes up to the general OPEC level and heal-or at least paper over-the bitter split that developed in the cartel last December (the eleven OPEC countries that raised prices 10% then would...
...inside out, the focus of Harvard's East Asian Research Center, which he directed for 18 years, and the East Asian Regional Studies Program, which he set up here. Fairbank educated a whole generation of converts whom, in academics, government, journalism and business, he has inspired to continue to spread the word about China...