Word: africa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, one of black Africa's most promising young leaders, was interviewed in Entebbe by Nairobi bureau chief Marguerite Michaels. Excerpts...
...freedom fighter. I would feel insulted if you called me a politician. Politicians here in Africa do not have a good reputation. Really, I'm not enjoying being President. I want to finish rebuilding the army, the police and the judiciary, and leave the country with a new constitution. And then I want to leave office...
Comparing Israel to South Africa, as will be done in the conference referred to in yesterday's Crimson, shows an unsophisticated and shallow understanding of the helpless, passive resistance movement of the majority of the South African people. That a people practicing non-violence is required to carry identification is inexplicable, intolerable and must be ended in South Africa. That a group which wages violent battle against a government and is still permitted to work in Israel is required to carry security cards for entrance into the country is incomparable--such a comparison belittles the nobility of the South African...
...within Israeli-controlled borders, although he seems less concerned with the plight of the 60 percent of Palestinians who live under the brutal rule of Jordan's King Hussein. Chomsky has long denied the right of Israel to exist. Should this person's enthusiasm for linking Israel and South Africa be regarded as a legitimate academic pursuit...
Agreed. But to have a group of pro-Palestinian organizations and anti-Israel speakers debate Israeli policy unlikely to accomplish that. It's akin to having a board of Christian fundamentalists discuss the legality of abortion, or having Zairean leader Sese Seko Mobutu speak about peace in Africa, for that matter. Although all views should be heard, treating such a forum as an academic pursuit would make a mockery of the term. To lend Harvard's credibility to a conference so imbalanced in its approach, so determined to push a particular point of view rather than to give...