Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With negotiation near, Rhodesian black leaders were busily conferring with each other. Both Nkomo, whose strength is in the rural areas, and Muzorewa, whose followers are mostly urban Africans, were wooing Robert Mugabe, who is influential with the guerrillas based in Mozambique. Either would like to join forces with Mugabe, thereby gaining guerrilla support. Mugabe is said to place emphasis on the need for military unity. The three are united on one point, at least: the country's name will be Zimbabwe (after an ancient African civilization that once thrived there...
Even if the homelands policy works as a device for deflecting future claims by blacks to power in Pretoria, it will do nothing to ameliorate a more immediate problem for the regime: growing anti-white rage among the urban blacks needed to run the South African economy. In Soweto (pop. 1 million), near Johannesburg, less than a third of the blacks' dwellings have electric lights; less than a tenth have running water. In the slum sections, robbery and rape are commonplace; says a woman from the Naledi section of Soweto: "I pray we could have daylight for all 24 hours...
Among the J N.R.'s 256 separate rail lines, only the bullet trains and two of Tokyo's urban services turn profits. The rest lose money at a rate that makes the old Penn Central's losses trivial by comparison. One example: the Biko line, which serves a sparsely populated area on the island of Hokkaido, has outlays of $11 for every 34? it earns. In the past twelve years, the Japanese National Railway has piled up a staggering debt of $34 billion; at present it is losing money at the rate of $8.6 million...
DEPRESSINGLY FEW original proposals have been advanced recently for combatting national unemployment, which is now running at nearly 8 per cent and substantially higher for groups like women and young, urban blacks. While the nation experiences its worst recession since the 1930s--and the government's indicators last month implied things weren't getting much better--politicians have been singularly uninspired in providing new solutions. Even the Democrats can only promise the old-time faith of public works and, consequently, increased consumer demand. The Republicans, represented by President Ford, cling only to a mysterious faith that the current record profits...
...think that in our present state of ignorance no university, and no crowded urban center is a place for this kind of work. I think it should be segregated within one or a few national or regional laboratories. And I want a steady monitoring of the involved workers...