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...blacks live. Besides the laws that prevent social interaction, and laws that prevent serious dissent from the government's apartheid policies, there are laws to keep South Africans from thinking. The censor's list is long and strict, and the newspapers have to tread carefully when they cover current events. Often the censors are fairly arbitrary, as in one famous case, when they banned Black Beauty (because of its title). While in Pretoria, I realize I have a banned novel in my suitcase, Alex LaGuma's Fog at the Season's End. For a moment, I feel...
Smith's hand is strengthened by the fact that his black partners seem more concerned with jockeying for political position in the future government than making sure that government will have power independent of the whites. Muzorewa supports the current settlement because he feels assured of winning the popular elections; Sithole and Chirau are along for the ride. Muzorewa even accompanied Smith on his unsuccessful lobbying mission to the U.S. last month to drum up support for the interim agreement...
...Spence, Associate Dean of the College, said she did not think any funds for current operation of the Houses came from alumni gifts. She added that College funds are distributed to Houses on a per capita basis...
...sense--it is symbolic of the growing sense of frustration with this project, an idea that has been in the works since 1939. Nearly everybody wants the Red Line extended somewhere--be it to Alewife, Rte. 128 or farther--but almost nobody is very happy with the current MBTA plans...
...Line to the Alewife area, it can not ignore citizens' moral and legal claims. The MBTA may be gambling with all its chips if it does not perform a supplementary EIS before a federal district court orders one. Cambridge citizens are gambling another EIS would reject the MBTA's current plans, and when Cambridge citizens sit down at the table and deal, they don't expect to lose...