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...growing furor over the circumstances of Biko's death will inevitably focus attention in the coming campaign on the government's racial policies. Even more crucial, perhaps, it may prove to be a final showdown in the 200-year-old cultural and political war between South Africans of English descent and the Dutch-descended Afrikaners. The Afrikaners' ability and willingness to adapt, if only to survive, are yet to be tested. But knowledgeable observers believe that a convincing electoral victory would allow Vorster to relax the apartheid laws and work toward peaceful settlements in Namibia and Rhodesia...
Tureen's plan was leaked to the public and part of the resulting furor stemmed from the fact that neither Gay Head nor the tribal council ever had fishing rights in Chilmark. Although Tureen and all members of the tribal council insist that the document was only a draft, to be used as a basis for discussion during negotiations between the taxpayers association and the tribal council, its release angered factions on both sides. Wenonah Silva, tribal council president, charged that the draft's release was an attempt at sabotaging the negotiations by disgruntled tribal council members. Certainly the public...
...University's search committee interviewed over 100 applicants for the post and apparently settled on Robert Peck, athletic director and chairman of the Physical Education Department at Williams College. But the impending choice of Peck, which someone in the department apparently leaked to The Boston Globe, touched off a furor among both students--who resented the fact that there were no undergraduate representatives on the search committee--and old alumni, who would rather see McGovern in the White House than a non-Harvard grad in 60 Boylston...
Berkeley psychologist Arthur R. Jensen, who caused an academic furor in 1969 when he declared blacks are genetically inclined to lower I.Q.s than whites, moderated his position this summer...
...probably the liveliest intellectual hubbub to hit Paris since the early 1950s, when Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre startled other leftist intellectuals by defending Stalin's ironfisted regime, in spite of its excesses. This time the furor revolves around a group of young intellectuals, most of them lapsed Marxists, who are now attacking Marxism as an evil, obsolete ideology that leads inevitably to totalitarianism. The "New Philosophers," as they are known, have become overnight celebrities-featured on magazine covers and on TV talk shows. The New Philosophers have no wide popular following and are unlikely to have much impact...