Word: township
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...technologies as high-temperature incineration and in failing to back innovative approaches for detoxifying chemical wastes (see box). EPA has projects under way in these fields, but the pace is slow, the funding inadequate, and there is little sense of urgency. Barbara Vecchiarelli, a citizens'-group leader in Marlboro Township, N.J., admires Daggett's dedication to his work but, nonetheless, complains about EPA in general: "They don't have the technology to handle chemical pollution. The problem is bigger than they are, and they're afraid to admit it to the American people...
Zulu Chief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi, one of the country's more moderate black leaders, dismissed the Port Elizabeth speech as "bitterly disappointing." Dr. Nthato Motlana, a senior civic leader in Soweto, South Africa's largest black township, branded Botha's remarks an "absolute waste of time." Leaders of the outlawed African National Congress, delivering their assessment from Zambia, called the proposals "meaningless amendments of the apartheid system," while the Sowetan, South Africa's largest black daily, editorialized: "The unified South Africa only reflects another glorified system of homelands . . . (Apartheid) cannot be dressed up in false colors. We are not that...
...Black South Africans understandably lose faith in the effectiveness of the non-violent philosophies of Boesak, Tutu and the rest, younger activists like Stephen Tshewete are gaining greater followings. A former prisoner who has urged that township unrest be brought into white areas, Tshewete's impassioned pleas are becoming increasingly popular. If moderates who want peaceful change are being thrown in jail, youths are saying to themselves, why should they continue to limit their tactics...
...national scale, violence abated slightly, but disturbances boiled up in the huge township of Soweto, outside Johannesburg, as police attempted to get students to return to their classrooms, on one occasion arresting more than 700. Near Cape Town, an angry crowd killed a plainclothesman after he fired at mourners following a funeral. Said General Johan Coetzee, the national police commissioner: "We do not have a state of war or revolution in this country." Still, unrest and violence remain daily features of South Africa's life...
...himself to his country's political crisis in a decisive manner. But all the signs last week pointed toward continuing intransigence and spreading violence. One evening a crowd of about 60 mixed-race youths, known in the lexicon of South African racism as colored, made their way from the township of Scottsdene on the eastern fringes of Cape Town to the adjoining white suburb of Kraaifontein. There they roamed through the streets throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails at the well-kept homes before being driven away by white residents who fired at them with pistols and shotguns. Later, police arrested...