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Zocalo is a surprisingly painless trip from Harvard, a 10-minute bus ride and one block walk. Go for the atmosphere, the satisfaction of escaping the Square, and the reality-defying vanilla flan ($4.95), so delicate that eating it almost makes you feel lighter. Just another little surprise that little Zocalo has to offer...
Location: Take the 77 bus from Harvard Station to Foster Street, then go right one block...
...here, a woman there. The security forces arrested political activists, church workers, students, labor organizers, youthful militants--anyone, it seemed, who might conceivably lead a protest against the white minority government of State President P.W. Botha. At times the detentions seemed carefully planned, at others indiscriminate: near Johannesburg, 22 bus passengers were taken into custody as they returned from a funeral. Virtually all those arrested in police actions were black...
Nonetheless, one aspect of their lives has changed hardly at all. South African whites rarely if ever visit black townships and have only the vaguest idea of what life in them is like. Says a Johannesburg travel agent: "Foreign visitors who take the scheduled bus tour to Soweto," the sprawling black township southwest of Johannesburg, "know more about the place than do most of the city's whites." Those tours were temporarily canceled a fortnight ago after a bus carrying American, German and British tourists was stoned by youths...
Scali said that several tour-bus companies are already running in Cambridge. He also spoke about unresolved issues regarding the proposed vehicles’ launching and landing sites in the Charles River...