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When Percy P. Qoboza was a Nieman fellow here two years ago, he justified his newspaper's emphasis on sensational rather than political news by saying his responsibility as an editor was to keep the largest black paper in South Africa from being closed down...
More and more, Qoboza and his paper became the voice of the black community, taking a clear stand in the struggle against the white minority regime, Obed Kunene, editor of a smaller against the white minority regime, Obed Kunene, editor of a smaller black South African paper and a Nieman fellow this year, said this week...
...James C. Thomson, curator of the Nieman Foundations for Journalism, was not mincing words. "With this nationwide, brutal suppression of dissent," he said Wednesday, "the illegitimate Pretoria regime moves far toward terminating its last cosmetic pretence to democracy--namely, a free press...
...distressing therefore to see Kissinger, despite his well-known history, honored by offers of positions at Harvard, Columbia, and Georgetown Universities, and by invitations like the Nieman Foundation's. This is not a question of academic freedom. Kissinger won his notoriety not as a scholar, but as a government official whose policies killed hundreds of thousands of Asians, Africans, and Americans...
...Niemans did not intend to pay Kissinger tribute they should have placed him in an adversary relationship where representatives of the other sides could have helped bring out the truth. The Nieman Foundation was set up to "elevate and promote the standards of journalism." We hope that such an ideal, rather than an eclectic affection for power, guides the foundation's future...