Word: townships
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...communities hung on a single Army contract for a helicopter known as UTTAS (Utility Tactical Transport Aircraft System). In December the Army announced the winner: Sikorsky of Stratford, Conn., which stands to reap perhaps $4 billion in sales over the next ten years. The loser, Boeing Vertol in Ridley Township, Pa., a suburb of Philadelphia, must now contend with doubts about its survival as a primary aircraft maker. To gauge the impact of the biggest helicopter award in 20 years, TIME Correspondent Eileen Shields visited both plants. Her report...
...Maryland woods were sprinkled with thousands of dead birds, which were unable to penetrate the icy snow to reach food. Stores were running out of rock salt to melt ice, but elderly women found a substitute to steady their steps on sidewalks: a scattering of kitty litter. In Aston Township, Pa., Ned Oppelt, 24, decided that it was too cold to risk a long walk home from a party, crawled into a Laundromat's king-sized clothes dryer-still cozy and warm from the day's tumbling -and slept the night through. Fortunately, no early arrival slammed...
...even the usual small pleasures have been denied to many Sowetoans this Christmas. The township is in unofficial mourning for its many hundreds of missing. The mourning period was mounted by students still at liberty in Soweto, as a mark of respect for their absent colleagues. After some initial resistance, Soweto's elders generally complied with leaflets distributed by SSRC calling for a moratorium on Christmas presents, parties, the exchange of greeting cards and any other outward sign of celebration. One group of students went so far as to break up a wedding ceremony as "inappropriate"; since then, many marriages...
...limited effect. Too many Sowetoans live too close to poverty to risk losing even a day's pay. The current mourning campaign has been more successful. SSRC plans its next show of strength this week, when Soweto's schools are scheduled to reopen. It has vowed to keep the township's 180,000 children home to protest the poor quality of primary and secondary education?free and compulsory for South Africa's whites but only optional for blacks, who must pay annual school fees of around...
...tries intimidation to keep children away, Pretoria is likely to counter with its tough, heavily armed and mostly white riot police. It was the presence of riot police in Soweto last June that enraged student protesters and ultimately led to the shootings. If police turn up again in the township, Soweto may have still more reason for mourning...