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...Transvaal and was ready for politics in 1972 when he was tapped by the Afrikaner elite to stand for Parliament. He served as a solid but undistinguished member of a host of committees, later becoming a dutiful Cabinet minister holding such portfolios as sports and home affairs. His closest brush with the wretchedness of apartheid came when he was Education Minister during the 1976 Soweto riots protesting compulsory Afrikaans instruction in the schools. He stood resolutely behind the principle of separate but equal -- in practice unequal -- education. To the liberal press he was verkrampte -- unenlightened -- no different from the blunt...
Harvard's victory came after a close brush with defeat, when in the third round it lost to Berkeley and fell behind the Californians a full point, 3-2. It remained behind the west coast team until the sixth and final round, when fourth-ranked Toronto edged Berkeley and Harvard defeated Minnesota, raising its score to a tying five points...