Word: suppression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...come into conflict with the demands of a modern industrial economy. On the contrary, the system of enforced segregation has proven highly profitable. By containing Blacks to bantustans far from available jobs, apartheid creates a massive, migrant labor force which is difficult to organize and easy to suppress. Even where the dictates of industrialization have required some modification of existing race laws--such as the presence of Black workers in white cities--the government has been careful to preserve the essential elements of control. These urban workers, for example, are labeled "temporary sojourners" and are separated from their families...
...denounce "constructive engagement" in South Africa supporting reestablishing detente with the Soviet Union to communicate with the regime perhaps encourage its reform. The dissenters claim that "American fir: is supply computers that monitor the movement of Blacks" and the technology "that the military and police force use to suppress the majority," Well, the high tech items we trade to the Soviet Union are used to stifle opposition and indeed to build the guidance systems designed to target missiles at the United States. Is dialogue equitable with the Soviets, but not the South Africans...
...Crimson's stand is especially sad for two reasons. First, it comes at a time when a national consensus is emerging on the need for public opposition to the South African government--and at a time when that government has taken ever-more-brutal steps to suppress its Black majority. For The Crimson now to violate that national solidarity places the newspaper on the wrong side of the wrong issue at the wrong time...
Miners in the Andes have long used coca leaves to suppress hunger and induce a mild euphoria to help them ignore the cold. Others use them as an anesthetic or to ward off altitude sickness. For many, coca leaves are simply a cure-all. "Hot or cold, it's a different kind of drink, good for the stomach. It reduces weight. It restores energy," proclaims an advertisement for coca tea in Peru, where the marketing of coca-based products is quite legal...
...recent visit to Harvard, all American companies in South Africa are to some degree legitimizing apartheid. This legitimization is sometimes appallingly direct. American firms supply the computers that monitor the movement of Blacks and "coloreds" or the automobiles and petroleum that the military and police forces use to suppress the majority. But more important, the legitimization is indirect, because American corporations in South Africa cannot help but lend moral and economic support as well as credibility to the apartheid regimes simply through their physical presence...