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John Gerhart, a CRIMSON editor, worked in Dar es Salaam last year as a member of PBH's Project Tanganyika...
...though going back is probably impossible, Dar es Sallaam is not necessarily the end of the road for the refugee. If he is intelligent, the refugee can enter the school being run in Dar by the African American Institute and staffed by members of the Phillips Brooks House-sponsored Project Tanganyika. If he has a secondary school education, he can qualify in a few months for a scholarship, either to the U.S., to another African country, or to a nation of the Communist bloc, especially China, Czechoslovakia, or the Soviet Usion. A number of the refugees become "freedom fighters...
...strong aversion toward study in China or the Soviet Union. Numerous students have refused (against their party's wishes) to go to Communist countries and some have even switched political parties to avoid being sent. But because the American scholarship program, which is run by the U.S. Embassy in Dar es Salaam, is invariably more selective than the Communists, many students who have been rejected for U.S. scholarships end up journeying to Eastern Bloc countries...
Refugee students in the U.S. are not the only ones to have troubles, however. Some refugees, unable or unwilling to stay in school in Moscow, have returned to Dar es Salaam loudly denouncing the Russians as "bigots and hyprocrites." One secondary school student was promised a scholarship to Poland and given an airplane ticket to Cairo to "finalize arrangements." After three months of being told by the Polish Embassy to "come back next week," he found a scholarship to an Egyptian technical school where he plans to start this fall...
...refugee school in Dar es Salaam is the only one of its kind on the African continent, but it is unique in other ways also. It is one of the handful of American efforts that lend support to the African liberation movements and as such it counteracts the frequent charge that Americans are all neo-colonialists. The Harvard and Radcliffe students teaching at the school do far more than any other U.S. sponsored project to encourage the refugee students, most of whom will be leaders in their own countries in the not-too-distant future...