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...plan, said President-elect Frederik W. de Klerk, opens nothing less than "a new chapter" in South Africa's history. Passed last week by the ruling National Party, the outline calls for constitutional reforms to be introduced over the next five years that would provide limited voting rights to the country's disenfranchised black majority. The accord envisions a federal system composed of Swiss-style cantons, where suffrage in local elections would be universal...
THESE changes were largely targeted at defeating the group that nominated Tutu. Since 1986, alumni dissatisfied with Harvard's continuing attachments to the apartheid regime in South Africa have sought to elect candidates from the Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid (HRAAA) slate to the 30-member Board, which is elected by all University alumni...
Although the Board traditionally has acted as a formal rubber-stamp for the Corporation--the body that takes care of Harvard's day-to-day operation--HRAAA has hoped to elect enough overseers to force a Board vote on the University's South Africa-related investment policy. With Tutu, there are now four HRAAA overseers, as well as several Alumni Association overseers who have said they favor divestment...
...Argentinians have turned their eyes to Menem. But since the President- elect has yet to define a concrete economic plan, the situation seems bound to deteriorate further. Even Argentina's generals, who have never been shy about staging coups before, appear reluctant to intervene for fear of saddling themselves with the blame for economic ruin. "We are in a process of decline," says Federico Zorraquin, president of the Banco Commercial del Norte. "No one knows where it will...
...supposed difference between students and alumni is that as an alumnus I will have earned the right to give advice to Harvard. The Board of Overseers is the voice for this advice, as the one truly democratic institution in the Harvard bureaucracy to which alumni elect representatives to present their concerns and opinions...