Word: zulu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Zulu said that the committee will spend most of its time publicizing the boycott through leaflets and radio announcements...
...Dini Zulu, chairman of the African Liberation Support Committee's local organization said that the recent publicity of the reported mass murders in Mozambique provides a "graphic expression of Portuguese oppression in Africa" and that the committee is trying to tie the alleged massacre to their call for a boycott of Polaroid, Gulf, and all freeze dried coffee, a product that provides most of the income for Portuguese settlers in Africa...
...captives would be loaded aboard medical-evacuation planes for Clark Air Base in the dusty Luzon plain of the Philippines. At Clark as the release approached, the men inside the Joint Homecoming Reception Center Command Post scanned a bank of clocks reading "Hanoi," "Local," "Hawaii," "Washington D.C.," and "Zulu" -Greenwich mean time. Officers manned hot lines, and prepared to chart every movement of the prisoners from the instant of their arrival. The exercise was worthy of a major offensive, except that now the object was almost extravagantly peaceful...
Among the 50,000 black strikers, the majority of them Zulu tribesmen, were 16,000 Durban municipal employees; their walkout caused litter to pile up in the streets and forced white housewives to perform the unaccustomed task of carting away their own garbage. At nearby Hammarsdale, where 7,00 blacks left their jobs, a crowd of 200 was dispersed by police with tear gas after the demonstrators had brandished clubs and chanted "Usutu!", a traditional Zulu...
...London's Aldwych Theater, the Natal Theater Workshop Company had one of the hits of the season with a Zulu version of Macbeth titled Umabatha. Princess Margaret paid her royal respects to the cast, and any scandal sniffers tempted to read significance into the sometime absence of her husband, Lord Snowdon, might well be discouraged by the catalogue of false rumors about her sister, Queen Elizabeth II, culled from the French press by Jean Marcilly, ex-editor in chief of France Dimanche. In Marcilly's survey, French papers have had the Queen pregnant 92 times, with nine miscarriages...