Word: thats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Instead of concentrating their organizing efforts on black academics, intellectuals or the young, as they have in the past, the leaders of black activist groups in Port Elizabeth and Soweto, the black township outside Johannesburg, are now focusing on factory workers. Because black labor is essential to South Africa'...
Yet if he moves to appease black workers, Prime Minister Botha risks the wrath of Afrikaner hardliners, who abhor his apartheid reforms. Soon after Thozamile Botha's walkout, white union members held an angry meeting that led to an outburst of racial slurs; blacks were accused of "fouling" integrated...
Their quarry was Kurt Schilling, 57, a Swiss business consultant working, he insisted, in "the interests of Swiss defense." At first the Austrians laughed: they thought he was an East bloc spy. Then Swiss officials discovered that Schilling had indeed been dispatched on an information-gathering mission, albeit unauthorized, by...
Bachmann dreamed up the assignment for Schilling, a military buff, on his own. The colonel, whose zeal was said by the Swiss to have been "a problem," said that Schilling was an apprentice agent whose prowess he wanted to test in an easy job. The Swiss suspended Bachmann from duty...
Little strokes, a heart attack, cancer. Rumors of these illnesses-and worries about how they would affect his fitness for office-hovered around Franklin Delano Roosevelt as early as 1936. By 1944, when he was 62 and running for an unprecedented fourth term as President, the rumors had become persistent...