Word: worded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Four other ANC leaders from the Johannesburg area also were freed Sunday, according to associates and relatives. There was no immediate word on three other political prisoners, two of them ANC members, whose freedom also had been approved by President F.W. de Klerk on Tuesday...
There was no immediate word about the status of the three other prisoners named by de Klerk--80-year-year ANC activist Oscar Mpetha, who has been hospitalized in Cape Town; Raymond Mhlaba, a co-defendent of Sisulu and Mandela who lives in Port Elizabeth; and Jafta Masemola, a member of the Pan Africanist guerrilla movement who lives outside Pretoria...
...remainder of the day is filled with menial labor: whacking weeds, swabbing floors, painting walls, marching in formation. As they half-step, an officer asks, "What is the word for the day?" The platoon answers, "Self- discipline. We like it. We love it. We want more of it, sir!" At 10 p.m., it is lights...
...Last week coal miners in the Ukrainian town of Chervonograd held a brief warning strike to demand immediate implementation of government pledges to raise wages and improve conditions. When one Minister called for postponing the expensive concessions, Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov rejected the proposal. "The government must keep its word," he said. Soviet legislators are concerned that if such strikes continue or spread, they could push the shaky Soviet economy to total collapse...
...opportunity exists for the council to provide a vocal and coherent critique of the administration, through connecting student services issues with matters that affect the world outside the University. An effective council will spread the word that the University's failure to provide student services goes hand-in-hand with its readiness to provide disservices to the world...