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That was too much for the President. He ordered Winnie to retract her statement or resign her post as Deputy Minister of Arts and Culture. She submitted a letter that sought only to ``clarify'' her remarks. No, Mandela said, she would have to do better. Last week he accepted her second letter, in which she said she ``would like to apologize most sincerely for the impression the speech caused that I sought to condemn the government...
...turn of the Jews to retract, apologize and pay reparations for their invention of the Hamitic Myth, which killed many millions more than all the anti-Jewish pogroms and holocausts in Europe," he writes...
After reading the staff editorial, "Clarke Should Retract Statements" (Nov. 4, 1994), we were left wondering whose free speech? Whites'? Or just whites who contemplate notions of Black inferiority? Unfortunately, The Crimson's staff failed to heed its own words in its treatment of BSA President Kristen Clarke '97, whose challenge of The Bell Curve, by Charles A. Murray '65 and the late Professor Richard Herrnstein ("Blacks Seek an End to Abuse," opinion, Oct. 28, 1994) elicited the staff's condemnation and the kinds of intimidation The Crimson has warned against earlier: Either Clarke would retract her words and issue...
...attempt to cloud the issues, The Crimson's staff responded with an attempt at character assassination that falsely accused Counter of "anti-Semitism"--a charge recently revisited in another staff editorial ("Counter Drags the Foundation Down," opinion, Oct. 25, 1994)--and demanded that either he retract his statements or relinquish his charge of race relations at Harvard...
...Crimson staff was too quick to come to the conclusion that Kristen Clarke '97 should resign as president of the Black Students Association ("Clarke Should Retract Statements," Opinion...