Word: township
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Seale, 45, described how he and Irene, in an attempt to extort $18 million from Exxon, ambushed Reso from a van parked in front of his Morris Township home. When Reso stopped to pick up his newspaper at the end of his driveway, "I yelled and grabbed him by the collar," Seale told the judge. "I pulled him into the van, and when he got into the van he went to turn and the gun went off." For four days, the couple held the badly wounded Reso without food and water in a locked wooden box in a self-storage...
...South Africa slips deeper into conflict, it might be traced to a morning in June when President F.W. de Klerk attempted to visit Boipatong, scene of the most recent township massacre. Until then he was often greeted in black communities by chants of "Viva comrade De Klerk!" But in Boipatong angry young men blocked his way and called him a murderer. De Klerk fled in the presidential BMW, consternation written on his face...
...apartheid and promised to shape a new South Africa? The harsh answer dawning on an increasingly militant Mandela and others is that De Klerk, despite his reforms, is not intent on securing justice and freedom for all; if that were true, he would be doing more to end the township violence. Instead, they believe, De Klerk has revealed himself as a ruthless practitioner of realpolitik, determined to preserve decisive white power and privilege...
...delicate surgery required to remove the cancer of apartheid was always deemed highly risky. Last week the ambitious operation was put on hold after a bloodbath in the black township of Boipatong set off a searing dispute among South Africa's various parties, black and white...
...making a buck. That venerable cop-show counsel apparently went unheeded by a New Jersey couple, indicted last week on six counts of kidnapping and extortion in the case of missing Exxon International president Sidney Reso. Last April Reso, 57, vanished from the driveway of his posh Morris Township, N.J., home while on his way to work...