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...Lewis P. Nkosi, the young Nieman Fellow hindered in coming to Harvard by the racist policies of the Union of South Africa, arrived in Cambridge Monday. Nkosi was allowed to leave South Africa only on the condition that he should never return...
Earlier this year the Government refused to grant Nkosi's application for a passport. University officials speculated that the Union was retaliating against Nkosi for his attacks on South Africa's apartheid policies...
Condemning the Government's refusal to grant a passport to Nkosi, South Africa's Institute of Race Relations called it an action which "could only once again expose South Africa to world censure." White students have been permitted to leave the country freely...
...Nkosi's former employer, the Johannesburg Post, criticized the government's action, saying, "This country now loses the services of a man who would have served his people all the better after his year at a great American university, and the Government gains the world spotlight for an act of spite which will not easily be lived down...
...Nkosi plans to study magazine writing and recent developments in mass communications theory while at the University. He had earlier expected to arrive in Cambridge by late September...