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...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...
...several major developments in the struggle for racial equality and justice in South Africa. A new constitution has been put into effect, and the brutal treatment of those opposed, both enfranchised coloreds and Black South Africans alike, to the more sophisticated and modernized from of apartheid has proven President Botha's so-called reform to be nothing more than deception...
...year, it meant an end to support for guerrilla movements using one another's territory as bases. Since then, antiapartheid militants have been discouraged in Mozambique. Now South Africa has come up with a plan for keeping its part of the bargain. South African Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha said that the Mozambican government and its prime adversary, the anti-Communist Mozambique National Resistance movement, have agreed to a South Africa-sponsored cease-fire proposal. The plan calls for the M.N.R. to recognize President Samora Machel's regime...
...newly enfranchised voters showed little interest in the whole proceeding: only 30% of the eligible coloreds and 20% of the eligible Indians bothered to vote. The trouble grew uglier two weeks ago, when South Africa's new constitution went into effect and Prime Minister P. (for Pieter) W. Botha, 68, was chosen as the country's powerful new Executive President. Rioting swept the black town ships in an area known as the Vaal triangle, to the south and east of Johannesburg, resulting in the deaths of at least 31 people. While the unrest was sparked by rent increases...
...participated in the recent elections were committing a "mammoth betrayal" of the black population. On the other hand, Afrikaner diehards agreed with Eugene Terreblanche, head of an extreme-right group, who said that "South Africa, the land of promise, will be given away to non-Christians." Against such criticism, Botha has argued, "I don't say that what we are entering into is perfect, nor is it the total solution to our problems. But I ask, what is the alternative...