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...Harvard Corporation recently appointed ten foreign journalists to this year's class of Nieman fellows, including newsmen from countries formerly excluded by the Nieman Foundation...
...class of Nieman Fellows also includes two "visiting Niemans" who will spend less than the standard nine-month duration involved in the Nieman curriculum...
...them is Donald J. Woods, who escaped from South Africa last year after openly criticizing apartheid policies. Woods will be in residence at Leverett House, James C. Thomson, curator of the Nieman Foundation, said yesterday...
Woods is currently traveling and lecturing in this country but he will become more active at Harvard in the spring. "We made him a visiting Nieman so he could have freedom to travel and spread his ideas without being tied to the Nieman curriculum," Thomson said...
President Bok sent a letter of protest to the South African ambassador following the arrest of Percy P. Qoboza, a former Nieman Fellow and editor of The World, South Africa's largest black-language newspaper until it was banned last year. Bok called Qoboza's incarceration, which was part of a crackdown on black activists within that country, "a travesty of justice under normal civilized conditions;" he did not, however, recommend that the Corporation take any action to back up what he said was only a personal protest. "It's a very complex issue," Bok explained...