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...Rhodesian Front Party earlier this year. The M.P.s resigned over an amendment to the longstanding Land Tenure Act that contained the Smith government's first important, if belated concessions on segregation. The R.A.P. is determined to limit the number of blacks who may vote and to restrict their political rights to the tribal homelands This hard-line stance has a strong appeal to white voters. But most observers feel that Smith's sense of timing is as acute as ever-and that he will probably win another mandate. "Smith still sees himself as the man who can save...
...rapid are the technological advances in personal record-keeping that the Government has been unable to keep pace with controls. Congress enacted the Privacy Act of 1974 to restrict abuses by federal officials, but has done almost nothing about misdeeds in private business. The Linowes report puts forward 162 recommendations for reform. The package may be overdetailed and could lead to a costly bureaucratic nightmare. But, at minimum, Congress should enact legislation that would...
...National Park Service has taken steps to restrict automobiles from some park areas, and its Rangers have been cracking down on campers who insist on disturbing the parks' peace. To prevent further deterioration of the wilderness, some local park directors have banned snowmobiles, restricted boat traffic down certain rivers, begun issuing permits to hikers and climbers, and even closed trails for a year or two to give them a chance to recover...
...their own. Another group of women, most of them white, called the Black Sash, has demonstrated against "unjust" laws for many years and runs advice offices to help Africans who run afoul of the pass laws (the regulations that require blacks to carry identity papers at all times and restrict their movements). Most South African businessmen are convinced that blacks must be brought along farther and faster in the economy. There have been some changes in "petty apartheid." Whites boast that "international" hotels have been opened to blacks, and that blacks now participate in white sports, which has great symbolic...
...Separate but equal" became the issue last fall when Ruth Hubbard '45, professor of Biology, allowed her Currier House seminar on women's issues in biology to restrict itself to women students...