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College courses on the presidency and the number of students who attend them have grown dramatically. The University of Virginia's White Burkett Miller Center of Public Affairs, which is oriented toward the presidency, started its scholarly presentations seven years ago with audiences of just under 30 participants and now draws up to 80. The center is making plans to build a small auditorium for the forums...
...quote two other academics who refer to A.I.A.'s activities as "spying" and "ideological espionage." A.I.A. will obtain information from students regularly enrolled in courses. The lectures they attend are not secret, and the students have every right to tell anyone what has been said...
Blackburn, a 55-year-old mother of seven, was an active member of the Black Sash, a group of white women who campaign against apartheid. One of the government's most visible white opponents, she had been arrested several times for attending illegal gatherings with blacks and for entering black townships without permission. Blackburn was often the only white to attend mass funeral rallies for blacks who had died in the racial unrest of the past 16 months, and last week blacks paid tribute to her. "Africans in this country are walking tall on the road she has blazed," Black...
...been underwritten in part by a CIA grant of $107,430, conveyed under a contract granting the agency review and censorship of the manuscript. When, a week before the conference, word leaked out about the CIA backing, Safran notified the guests. A number of them canceled plans to attend. Three of the center's six-man executive committee demanded Safran's resignation. The campus erupted in an angry colloquy about Government control of research, and Harvard turned crimson in embarrassment...
...weather drew them inside, they had Fibber McGee and Molly, Gunsmoke and music. When rock 'n' roll came along, the girls liked it, but they also developed a fondness for the country tunes their father favored so. In time they began driving the 120 miles to Colorado Springs, to attend country music concerts...