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...Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has given a $5000 grant to the Harvard Program on Information Resources Policy...
Anthony G. Oettinger, McKay Professor of Applied Mathematics and chairman of the Program, said yesterday the CIA is one of 80 financial supporters...
However, the proposed South African scholarship program is more than just another gesture. No one should take seriously the ideas that black South Africans will be brought to Harvard for a disinterested education. One needs only to look into the other areas of endeavor by Harvard to find the real purpose of the scholarship program. In the September 14 edition of the Harvard Gazette, President Bok refers to Harvard's educational mission in the Third World mentioning the schools of management organized by the Business School in countries such as Marcos's Philippines and the Shah's Iran. (Another...
Like its counterparts abroad, the South African scholarship program aims at the creation of a Western-educated and oriented African and Colored elite which can act as a "third force" between die-hard Afrikaaners and the forces of national liberation led by the African National Congress and the Pan-Africanist Congress. The U.S. government and business interests have wanted for a long time to reform apartheid just enough to stabilize it and maintain the enormous superprofits extracted from the black South African workforce. Harvard's plan plays right into this neo-colonialist strategy, by supplying partners with black forces...
Although answers to questions concerning how individuals are selected for this program, what will be their course of study, what will they do (if) when they return to South Africa may appear to ameliorate some antagonism toward this program. What President Bok and Bishop Muzorewa don't understand, though, is that history is not on their side. The liberation struggle across Southern Africa 'gains momentum with every new day and each new atrocity committed against freedom by the white-dominated regimes. These regimes and their Western backers can buy time but they cannot buy the hearts and minds...