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...South African problem is the only solution and are totally unwilling to compromise, rationally consider alternatives or heed evidence to the contrary. These students, on a mission from God, feel compelled to lambast any move to fight apartheid by the "establishment." Short of personally hiring a plane, flying to Pretoria, and splitting P. W. Botha's head with an Uzi submachine gun, there is virtually nothing President Bok can accomplish with full credit. Unless those who oppose divestment are ready to throw themselves entirely at the mercy of these inspired activists, then there is no hope for a better...
From now on, Bok wrote, Harvard's investment policy will be "consistent with our belief that American companies should not be engaged in supplying goods of strategic significance in the administration of apartheid." This newest tactic shifts the battle front from the factory floor to Pretoria's corridors of power, and it significantly politicizes Harvard's position...
...designed to nudge the South African government toward racial reform. To press that point, it is expected, Reagan will announce that he is sending Ambassador Herman Nickel back to South Africa this week. The Ambassador will carry a letter from Reagan and will be charged with urging reforms on Pretoria. Nickel was recalled to Washington in June after South African troops made an incursion into Botswana in search of antigovernment guerrillas...
Indeed, the Botha government is receiving precious little encouragement from any quarter. Though Ronald Reagan had recently described it as a "reformist" regime, Washington issued several critical statements last week concerning Pretoria's actions. For the first time, the U.S. explicitly urged South Africa to permit the A.N.C. to take part in any discussions between the government and black leaders on the country's future. In one of the strongest comments yet made on the current situation by a Reagan Administration official, State Department Spokesman Charles Redman declared: "Banning individuals and organizations from political activity is one of the most...
...march is going ahead." On Tuesday afternoon Boesak, a founder of the U.D.F. and a member of the "colored" community (the official term for South Africans of mixed race), was arrested at a roadblock near his home outside Cape Town and was flown to a prison in Pretoria...