Word: winging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last September to adjust its strategy to the new political conjuncture and with an aim to toppling the dictatorship. Last month's offensive corresponded to what the FSLN designated the "last phase of the revolutionary war" against Somoza, as opposed to the old strategy, favored by the more left-wing militants, emphasizing long term work in the countryside and the establishment of socialism through military struggle...
...chief. One of 14 children, he was born in Jamestown, in the northeastern part of the Cape province. His father was a sheep farmer. Vorster attended the University of Stellenbosch, a bastion of Afrikaner nationalism, on a scholarship. He studied psychology and law and joined the junior wing of the National Party. In the early years of World War II he helped found the Flaming Ox-Wagon, a militantly anti-British, pro-German nationalist movement. Vorster was arrested by the pro-British government in 1942 and spent 14 months in an internment camp...
There is some evidence that one goal of the present crackdown on dissent is to reassure the right-wing verkrampte (narrow-minded) members of Vorster's National Party. To foreigners, the gruff Prime Minister may seem to be nothing more than a formidable reactionary. "He travels in an ox wagon always one length behind the train of history," a ranking British official observed last year. But Vorster is a pragmatist by comparison with many of his Afrikaner colleagues in government and a very shrewd politician as well. Thus, the new constitution could be interpreted as a concession to white moderates...
Proud Afrikaner though he is, Van Tonder is scornful of South African policies. "It's a police state," he says. "It's putting my culture into a straitjacket." Van Tonder, who has now joined the right-wing Herstigle Nasionale Partie and is standing as one of their candidates, has had issues of his own personal newsletter, Die Stem (The Call), banned. He believes, perhaps unrealistically, that the old Boer republics-the Transvaal and the Orange Free State-should be left on their own, allowed to preserve their language and culture in the midst of a predominantly black Africa...
Spirit was the trademark of the women's soccer team this year. Brynteson, only a sophomore, was one of the most productive scorers on the young team from her left wing position. Julie was one of the prime reasons that Bob Scalise's troops posted their outstanding 9-2-1 record this fall, as her well-placed crosses and booming shots confounded opposing goalies throughout the season. The Minneapolis native will share the captain's duties with Paula Levihn who, it must be admitted, lives in Kirkland House...