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"Africa," said Secretary of State William Rogers in Addis Ababa last week, "is going to be more important in the thinking of the U.S. in the future." It could scarcely be less. In the recent past, Africa has ranked at or near the bottom of every U.S. priority list. Direct...
Missionary persistence has given Lesotho the highest literacy rate on the African continent. But nature precludes her people from being able to exploit their education.
MOST Americans know the first Americans only by cliché. There is the 19th century image, caught in bronze and in lithograph, of the defeated warrior, head drooping forward so that his feathers nearly mingle with his pony's mane. The bow of his shoulders and the slump of his body...
But even that kind of reasonableness is dismissed by the new Indian militants as the talk of "Uncle Tom-Toms" or "Uncle Tomahawks" and "Stand-Around-the-Fort Indians." What these leaders seem to want most is for the Federal Government, which now spends only $500 million a year on...
Ropresentatives of the ITC pointed out that there are almost 100 million Indians living on the North American continent today, and that, with the exception of a few anthropology courses. Harvard does not offer its students the opportunity to study these people.