Word: suspended
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...issue. The fact remains that as of now Harvard has received written requests for interns from only nine organizations (the nine which appear on the list!). It is now time for Steiner and his committee to dissociate themselves from all of the organizations on the list and to suspend the program pending the consultation fo Black South Africans. Damon Silvers...
...activists urged Harvard, "to suspend this mistaken program, to sell its stock in companies that do business in South Africa, and then to reopen the question of other kinds of assistance...
...work-related issues, and their efforts met with varying success. Last year 40,000 black miners staged their first legal strike and won wage and benefit increases from South Africa's mining companies, which have generally been receptive to reforms. In September, however, the miners' union was forced to suspend a strike after only three days when less conciliatory mine operators threatened to dismiss the strikers and evict them from company-owned housing...
...various estimates, about two-thirds of South Africa's total foreign debt of some $17 billion will mature within a year. In the past, the banks simply rolled these borrowings over, in the fashion of a charge account. The government's immediate response to the loan problem was to suspend trading on foreign exchange and stock markets in South Africa. Further emergency measures are expected shortly...
...boss of Hans Joachim Tiedge, 48, head of the agency's East Germany section, who defected to that country two weeks ago. Despite complaints from co-workers that Tiedge was a security risk because of his heavy drinking and mounting debts, Hellenbroich had refused to move or suspend him, an action that Kohl called "totally incomprehensible." Even so, Hellenbroich insisted that he had not made a mistake. "I'd do it again," he said after his dismissal...