Word: namibia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...program did not solicit the views of Black South Africans and ignored protests from Black South Africans at Harvard. Five of the nine Harvard internships now available would send students to elite, white private schools in the racist state. Two of them are in the illegally occupied territory of Namibia and are associated with a company that engages in illegal mining activities and has been internationally condemned--by the United Nations and the Catholic Church, among others--for a variety of workplace and business practices. The final two internships are with the racist government-run school system in Johannesburg...
...process. One would like to give the program's organizers the benefit of the doubt. They didn't really intend a social service program for South Africa's elite white business class, did they? And why would they want to aid in the illegal occupation and economic exploitation of Namibia? But if their intentions were not evil, how could they have been so naive as to embark on the present program...
...list at OCS includes five predominantlywhite private schools, two philanthropicfoundations in Namibia, and two science and matheducation programs...
...available internship, with the RossingFoundation of Namibia, was cited by SASC asparticularly abhorent since it is connected withthe Rossing Corporation, a multinational miningconcern which the report states endangers thelives of workers in its open-pit uranium mine...
...other hand, he can be formidable in his defense of U.S. policy. In his first appearance at the Security Council last June, he attacked what he regarded as intentional misrepresentation of the U.S. position on Namibia. "The U.S. yields to no one in its support of Namibian independence," he declared. Then, fixing his gaze on the Vietnamese representative, he snapped, "Countries that crush opposition at home are scarcely qualified to judge the functioning of democracy...