Word: apartheiders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Touch of Bitterness. In his effort to establish a base of strength among the minorities who supported Kennedy, McCarthy gave unwonted attention last week to the subjects of poverty and racial justice. "We have maintained a kind of American apartheid in this country," he told the racially mixed Community Council of Greater New York. "We must proceed to bring an end to this colonialism in our own country." The audience, thick with former Kennedy loyalists, was little impressed, and one Negro even shouted "Down with McCarthy!" Afterward the Senator exclaimed with a touch of bitterness: "Those people are the enemy...
...decision-making processes. Yet would Harvard's Corporation be any more flexible in the face of reasonable opposition from the community, and from students and faculty, to a policy-decision? Harvard's decentralized government and its community-minded Office for Civic and Governmental Affairs would probably never permit an apartheid-gymnasium issue to reach the Corporation in the first place. But in the face of general increase in student agitation, does Harvard need to adjust its constitution? Or does the current decision-making system provide adequate means for any community member to express his thoughts...
...Kennedy defended the right of Americans to send material aid to North Vietnam and fought bills to cut back the Supreme Court's landmark criminal procedure decisions. They refused to admit that the Bob Kennedy who relentlessly exposed the costs of labor racketeering was the same man who assaulted apartheid on it's home territory. They seemed to forget that the drive for a nuclear non-proliferation treaty began only after Kennedy publicly raised the issue in a 1965 Senate speech. They didn't see that Kennedy meant as much to the frenzied crowds as they did to him. They...
Logue outlined three principal areas where action must be taken in heed of Riot Commission warnings to stop the United State's progress toward apartheid...
FRIENDS AND ENEMIES, by Naomi Mitchison (John Day; $3.95). When Petrus' schoolteacher brother is arrested for speaking against apartheid, his mother sends him for safety to his relatives in the Bechuanaland countryside. It is only 60 miles away, but the young South African boy finds many things different-most important the definitions of freedom and decency...