Word: townships
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...waterworks operator for a rural township water authority. By night, he manages Twirly Top, a popular local drive-in restaurant...
...years ago, whites needed official permits to enter black townships in South Africa. Now township tours are included in the travel packages of major South African cities, and visitors are invited to spend a night or two with a local family. "It brings out the entrepreneurs in the travel industry," says David Moshapalo, who runs a Johannesburg travel agency. "Bed-and-breakfast operations can start by opening up the family home to tourists who look to experience life with a South African family as part of their holiday...
...that warfare can be swift, efficient and relatively bloodless. Fighting the Serbs on the terrain of Kosovo will be bloody, ugly and long lasting. If the politicians are so gung-ho to sacrifice our sons and daughters, let them be the first ones on the battlefield. GREG SAMSON Clinton Township, Mich...
...event that was, as stated by the program notes, the "sharpest and most damning description ever drawn of the nature of Nazism." The town's crime: supposed involvement in the killing of SS Upper Group Leader Reinhard Heydrich. Their punishment: "all male citizens of the town were shot...The township was leveled to the ground and the name of the community extinguished." Blacklisted by the Nazis Martin arrived in New York City in March 1941, finding the strength to write about the atrocity a year later. The piece is remarkably simple, resonating like a clanging cymbal in slow motion. Martin...
...Encarta Africana includes video footage of riots both in the Los Angeles and South Africa's Soweto township, as well as videotaped lectures from celebrities ranging from Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West '74 to Whoopi Goldberg...