Word: africas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Boredom with the issue of apartheid, not government censorship, has caused a decrease in U.S. coverage of South Africa, a South African journalist concluded at a Kennedy School of Government forum last night...
...Censorship was an excuse for no longer covering the story," said Philip Van Niekerk, a Cape Town writer and a panelist at yesterday's forum on "Press Coverage of South Africa." He said that instead, one factor contributing to the decline in coverage was loss of interest in the country...
...this weekend's minority alumni reunion, Edward Dawson '81 remembered the time that President Derek C. Bok fled from student activists in a squad car. A discussion about the University's investments in South Africa had turned into an angry crowd, and Bok felt threatened. "Students were so vociferous," Dawson said...
Dawson also remembers "rallies, demonstrations and intense discussions with visitors." One night, students sat talking to General Motors representatives for "hours and hours" about the company's investment in South Africa, he said...
...fitful peace descended last week on Namibia as the longtime South African colony struggled to carry out its United Nations-supervised transition toward independence. There were only a few clashes between guerrillas of the South West Africa People's Organization and local and South African security forces; the fighting had killed 293 during the first three weeks of the transition. Some 1,000 SWAPO forces remained in Namibia rather than returning to bases more than 100 miles north, beyond the border in Angola...