Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile, the student committee united with other student minority and political organizations to form a coalition representing ten groups. When representatives from the groups met in the basement of Quincy House on April 15, divestiture of Harvard's South African holdings and strengthening of the Afro-American Studies Department emerged as the group's most pressing concerns and they called for a student boycott of classes barely a week later...
Donald Woods, exiled South African journalist, will probably top off his year as a Nieman fellow with a sheepskin. Ingmar Bergman or Orson Welles, past near-misses for the Norton Lectures, may represent the cinematic world on the honorary list...
...however, remains skeptical of assertions that corporate withdrawal will benefit non-whites in South Africa. But in doing so he overlooks, as the anti-apartheid groups claim, nearly every major black leader in South Africa. And he seems oblivious to the contentions of Rev. Desmond Tutu, a black South African leader who will receive an honorary degree at Commencement, that foreign investment in South Africa maintains apartheid...
...Leader Robert Mugabe, meanwhile, spent most of the week with his soldiers in the Mozambican bush. Mugabe's colleagues in the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) have nothing but contempt for Muzorewa, whom they regard as inept, indecisive and thin-skinned. Scorning him as "Queen Abel," a mere figurehead, they believe he will be unable either to end the war or gain real power from the country's 212,000 whites, who retain a strong behind-scenes voice in the government and have had outright control over the army, police, civil service and judiciary for ten years. Says...
Some Patriotic Front leaders profess to be concerned that Western recognition of the Muzorewa regime could lead to a sharp increase in the fighting, with South African troops coming to the aid of the security forces and the guerrillas calling for increased Eastern bloc support. There are reports in Mozambique that ZANU has privately assured its backers among the so-called frontline African states that if the lifting of sanctions against Rhodesia can be avoided, ZANU will then be prepared to take part in internationally supervised elections and abide by the results, even if Bishop Muzorewa wins again...