Word: journalists
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While a white student journalist or student politician can choose between a relatively small number of groups, a Black undergraduate finds in addition three essentially political groups, three performance groups, a science club and a literary magazine. Leaders of these organizations say that membership in these groups overlap and that many participants involve themselves in mainstream groups as well. But they describe the selection of extracurricular involvement as a particularly unique experience for Blacks, who have so many alternatives and often feel that their choice of involvement outside the classroom carries political overtones...
...London, where he is in exile, the renowned South African journalist Donald Woods characterizes it as "the most humane and effective group helping the movement for change in my country...
...Lech Walesa, the leader of Poland's outlawed Solidarity labor union, had accepted an invitation to speak at Harvard's 332nd Commencement exercises. The University had received a formal letter of acceptance from Walesa in March, administrators said, and they had confirmed his intentions through secret conversations with a journalist who had been in touch with Walesa...
Aloian contacted one of the journalist intermediaries and asked him to float by Walesa the possibility of an early announcement. "He told us it would help the chances of his coming over if we released the news early." So in the first week of April. Harvard's news office issued a press release about Walesa's acceptance--"largely to accommodate his request," Aloian says...
...addition, Aloian contacted one of the journalist envoys, who had planned to visit Gdansk later in the month, and asked him to clarify matters with Walesa...