Word: botha
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While the Reagan Administration may have yielded a bit in the face of growing opposition to "constructive engagement," South Africa has not moved an inch. In Pretoria, Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha restated his government's defiance of outside pressure. "South Africa will not allow itself to be dictated to by foreign elements, especially protesters and radical actions of pressure groups overseas," he declared. Said Executive President P.W. Botha: "South Africa will make its own decisions...
...African control in defiance of international resolutions, has been the continuing presence of 27,000 Cuban troops in neighboring Angola. The topic came up again last week when Chester Crocker, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, met with South Africa's Foreign Minister Roelof F. ("Pik") Botha in the Cape Verde Islands. Crocker reportedly relayed an offer from Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos to cut substantially the number of Cuban troops in Angola if South Africa agrees to withdraw its remaining forces from the country and to comply with U.N. Security Council Resolution 435, which...
...fact, the only real democratic question posed here is Harvard's threat to students' legitimate exercise of their rights to protest. Bok's letter is aimed at squelching potential student protest against the presence on campus of such mass murderers as Secretary of War Weinberger '38 and Presidents' Botha of South Africa. Bok says students should sit quickly and listen politely to these butchers and then--maybe--ask few questions at the end. This comes in the wake of the statement made by some faculty Council members that Adolf Hitler himself would be welcome to come to Harvard and "speak...
...open letter, Bok tries to paint himself as a "good gay" by denouncing the sexism of Pi Eta while saying not a word about the deeds of Weinberger and Botha and claiming that Harvard University stands above politics. What a sick joke! This in the home of the Kennedy School, where they draw up plans for a nuclear first strike and for the starvation of Central American peasants. This is the place where Vietnam war criminal Henry Kissinger received his training. This is the campus, where napalm was invented...
While the Harvard administration would welcome. Weinberger. Botha and Hitler with open arms in the name of "free speech" the rest of us are muzzled. Left-wing and minority faculty are routinely purged ("denied tenure") and even Ec 10's "radical sections" were evaporated. Meanwhile, Bok's underling Dean Epps does his bit for "free speech" by censoring the Harvard Hand's halftime shows. Preventing the Greatful Dead from performing on campus, and threatening two SYI ers with expulsion for participating in the protest of Weinberger. The simple statement "Behold, our butter stinketh!" was all it took for an undergraduate...