Word: township
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Until her accident, Karen had lived a fairly ordinary life. She was born Mary Anne Monahan in a hospital for unwed mothers in Scranton, Pa. The Quinlans adopted her at four weeks, renamed her, and gave her a strict Roman Catholic upbringing in Roxbury Township, N.J. She was an average student, good at swimming and skiing, popular with classmates...
...deaths raised the already high tensions in black communities, where at least 30 blacks have died in outbreaks of violence. In New Brighton township, near Port Elizabeth, police shot and killed a 15-year-old boy who, they said, was robbing a bus. The deaths increased political strains on the government of Executive President P.W. Botha. As liberal politicians pressed the government to hold an official inquiry into the deaths of Raditsela and Mutsi, the Afrikaner right wing was protesting relaxation of the apartheid laws. The latest move: an end to the plan that would force 700,000 blacks...
...whites, "coloreds" (of mixed race) and Indians--to call for an end to violence. In his televised address, the President also declared, ominously, that he was taking "necessary steps" to restore law-and-order. As he spoke, police in the Eastern Cape reported killing three blacks in clashes with township dwellers...
History seemed to be repeating itself, and more bleak ironies were piled high on a country already burdened with too many. Last Thursday marked the 25th anniversary of the massacre at Sharpeville, when police killed 69 blacks in the township 40 miles south of Johannesburg. That watershed conflict was still a vivid memory to many blacks in Langa, another township 25 miles from the southeast coastal city of Port Elizabeth. There, crowds defied a government ban on public gatherings to hold a procession in honor of three blacks who had been killed in clashes with police the previous weekend...
...people who live in the slum's 10,000 squalid shanties have not emerged entirely victorious. According to Viljoen, only 3,000 dwellings in Crossroads can be approved. Most of the squatters will still have to move, presumably to Khayelitsha, a new township eight miles away that many blacks reject as being too costly and too remote. Admitted Viljoen: "I can give no assurance that people will not be resettled under compulsion...