Word: isolationism
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In all, Shcharansky spent 3,255 days in the Gulag, the extensive Soviet penal system, almost completely cut off from external contacts. He had only the faintest sense of his international celebrity. "The method the KGB uses against prisoners is to isolate them fully from the outside world," he explains...
Such acts as writing protest letters were a crucial element in his struggle for survival. Another was his reading of Psalms, which he recited from memory in the punishment cells, where all books were forbidden. While there he had no opportunity to lie down during the day, and at night...
They were, all of them, human like us. Their courage and ambition took root in the familiar, sustained by circumstances and routines that everyone can recognize. On that last morning they were in preflight isolation but still a part of us. They got up and dressed, had breakfast and went...
Other Black South Africans fear the program issimply another step in Harvard's attempt tojustify its investments in that nation. The firstexcuse is a policy of intensive dialogue; nowthese internships go in the face of Blackpolitical leaders calling for isolation.
Harvard's involvement beyond the level ofcorporate investments rejects the politics ofthose who argue isolation is the best way todefeat the apartheid regime. "We don't want anyeducational involvement," Naidu says, adding thatHarvard can only bolster the efforts of thePretoria government with its interference.