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...William Carmichael, head of the Ford Foundation Office for the Middle East and Africa, said yesterday, however, that the Ford Foundation and the Institute for International Education (IIE), two groups represented at the meeting, discussed a scholarship program with Bishop Desmond Tutu, secretary-general of the South African Council of Churches...
...Carmichael said Tutu is organizing a committee to take note of "the needs of black South Africans" and to help develop a scholarship program, He added, however, that "there is nothing...
Under the proposed program, Carmichael said, black South Africans would be offered scholarships from American universities and financial assistance for travel and other costs from corporations and foundations...
Finch's election in 1975 was a signal that the long era of irrationality in Mississippi gubernatorial races was not yet at an end. In that race he defeated William Winter in the Democratic primary and Gil Carmichael in the general election. Both opponents are among the most intelligent, articulate and truly progressive leaders the state had to offer...
...Carmichael had seen the need for a responsive two-party system in the state and had tilted with the "country club" establishment of the GOP. He had run against Big Jim Eastland for the Senate in 1972, a courageous undertaking if one considers that he did it without Nixon's support and that Eastland was one of the most powerfully established political figures in the state. In the 1975 race, Carmichael outlined rational and workable plans for improving the state. While he was doing this and Winter was voluntarily disclosing income tax returns, Finch was bagging groceries, refusing open press...