Word: stadium
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After an earlier plan to bring the band the Talking Heads to the Stadium was cancelled last fall, the Student Production Association (SPA) rebounded this spring announcing a May 11 benefit concert...
...throng packed a soccer stadium in Alexandra, a squalid Black township wedged among the richest white suburbs of Johannesburg. In the crowd were Black activist Winnie Manela and diplomats from seven Western nations, including the United States...
Police with rifles manned all entrances to Alexandra and searched incoming cars, including that of Betsy Spiro, political counselor of the U.S. Embassy. They stayed well away from the stadium, but a helicopter circled overhead...
Such reassurances did not calm the fears of black leaders. The civic association called a rally in the local sports stadium, attracting more than 30,000 of the township's 100,000 residents. The crowd demanded the withdrawal of the security forces. The police commander agreed to remove patrols from the township streets and to permit Bishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace prizewinner, to speak in the stadium. "I know we all want freedom," Tutu told the crowd, "but we must get it in a disciplined manner." The throng returned to their homes peacefully. Later in the week, however, Tutu...
Then again, a quickie visit by Prince Charles in The Stadium is a little more enduring than a mixed-use housing project...