Word: africa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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However, Eastman said in an open letter to seniors released yesterday that the Biko Fund will not greatly aid black South Africans, and that students can better express their objections to Harvard's South Africa investment policies by giving no money whatsoever to the University...
President Bok said yesterday he had "no plans at the present time" to accept a recent challenge by Sen. Paul E. Tsongas (D-Mass.) to debate Harvard's investment policy on companies doing business in South Africa...
Tsongas called on Harvard and other universities earlier this month to divest of their holdings in companies with investments in South Africa...
...REPORTING from southern Africa's hot spot, Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, is serving up another object lesson in how biased the American media can be. The failing this time is the same one as always--almost total reliance on official sources of information. Americans reading of the recent elections in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe fell prey to the old New Hampshire Primary Gimmick--you predict your percentage of the vote, well below what your polls and organization are telling you in private, and when you beat the percentage, you've won. George McGovern didn't win the New Hampshire primary in 1972, nor did Eugene McCarthy...
BURNS AND the wire services get these facts into most of their stories, but they don't explore the sordid details. Instead, they write amazingly sympathetic stories slanted toward the brave-whites-fighting-off-savage-hordes-in-darkest-Africa line. This spring, for instance, after the guerillas had shot down a Rhodesian Airways plane, Burns hopped the next flight and wrote about the whites gulping down the whiskey straight and nervously joking while the pilot did evasive maneuvers. Such brave folk...