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...year and half ago almost no one had heard of the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID), whose 20 faculty fellows were quietly researching agricultural development programs in Kenya, trying to improvement in Mali, and sending teams to dig wells in the Sudan from the sixth floor of a tastefully modern office building on Cambridge St. But last winter, when President Bok offered the institute's directorship to Arnold C. Harberger, a University of Chicago economist who had been a consultant to Chile's repressive military regime, a storm of student and faculty protest went up, Harberger declined the position...
...issue came to a head in December, when Communist city officials of the Paris suburb of Vitry-sur-Seine launched a Christmas Eve attack on a housing complex where some 300 immigrant workers from Mali had just been installed. The Communists shouted threats and insults, severed electrical, telephone, water and heating lines, and rammed the building with a bulldozer. In sanctioning the outrage afterward, Marchais declared, "We do not want a new Harlem or a new Soweto in the Paris suburbs." By so nakedly exploiting the immigrant issue, Marchais obviously hoped to increase the Communist vote among lower-class suburbanites...
...cruel welcome for the 320 black immigrants from the West African nation of Mali. They had just settled into their newly refurbished, five-story government housing project in the southeastern Paris suburb of Vitry-sur-Seine. Then, on Christmas Eve, the quiet of the shabby, working-class district was broken by a raid of angry townspeople. Accompanied by Paul Mercieca, Vitry's Communist mayor, a group of 50 residents and town officials swarmed over the building. They snipped telephone lines, sawed off water pipes, tore hot water heaters off the walls and ripped the wiring out of fuse boxes...