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Article: S. AFRICA RALLY SENATE RAILED FOR REFUSING STATE DIVESTITURE.(Local)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- June 26, 1986
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Byline: Paul Grondahl
John Funiciello, after five hours of swinging a hammer and chopping with an ax since 6 a.m., was driving the last support stakes into the bases of two wood-frame and cardboard shanties when a tremendous gust of Wednesday's wind slammed into the structures.
Six-foot sheets of cardboard scattered like dead leaves. Passers-by ducked. And the cold, gray edifice of the Capitol loomed over the scene, impenetrable, monolithic. The symbolism was not lost on those present.
Sipho Seepe, 26, a native of Soweto, South Africa, and a Capital District Coalition Against Apartheid and Racism member who is studying for his master's degree in ...