Word: township
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...obvious answer to that one -- provide better teaching -- is not always a priority at Harvard. As Shawn Rose, a senior from White Township, N.J., puts it, "All-star professors aren't necessarily all-star teachers." James Q. Wilson, for example, teaches a small section of his course on American politics but does so as if addressing the House of Lords. At a table of 15, he gazes over the heads of students, indulging the musty convention of calling them by their last names only. Yet Wilson is considered sprightly compared with peers like Economist James Duesenberry, dubbed the "Human Quaalude...
Even in South Africa, a country that has become almost numbed to racial violence, it was a night to remember -- or to try to forget. In Soweto, the sprawling African township (pop. 2 million) outside Johannesburg, three Land Rovers full of police pulled up to a burning roadblock constructed of garbage cans, tires, logs and scrap metal. Along the barricade stood a crowd of angry youths. Some Sowetans claim that the trouble actually started two hours earlier, when police broke up a meeting called to discuss the threatened eviction of people who were refusing to pay their rent. The government...
...level guerrilla war from bases in neighboring states. South Africa has effectively neutralized the A.N.C. through agreements, economic pressure and occasional cross-border military strikes. While terror bombings take place and mines, hand grenades and AK-47 assault rifles still kill and wound South Africans, mostly in township violence, the flow of weapons into the country is not enough for an armed insurrection...
...Parliament, delivered a stinging rebuke to the Afrikaner-dominated government. Not only was South Africa divided into white and black worlds, she declared, but "in the vast majority of cases, the white citizens have never set foot in the world of the blacks. They have never been in a township, know nothing about the miserable conditions endured by people compelled to live in those areas. But most of all, they know nothing of the seething anger that has built up over the years, so clearly demonstrated at (black) funerals...
...young antiapartheid activists. At least 32 people were killed, and tens of thousands of shacks were burned, reputedly by the vigilantes, leaving as many as half of the settlement's 100,000 residents without shelter. There were riots in at least 15 other places, including the huge black township of Soweto, outside Johannesburg, where police clashed with a crowd of 8,000 who had gathered to attend a funeral that the government had declared illegal. All told, the number of South Africans killed in disturbances over the past 20 months, almost all of them black, is approaching 1,600. Late...