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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under the harsh illogic of apartheid, South Africa's 11 million blacks are restricted chiefly to unskilled labor, but at least some of them have been permitted to seek out their own humble jobs. Last week Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's regime prepared to erase even that right. Gaveled through Parliament was an amendment to the Bantu Laws designed to give the government total control over the employment, place of residence and movements of every African worker...
...Chinese, explained Galbraith to a packed Dunster House Junior Common Room, "clearly clobbered" that position by forcing India to seek Western aid and to worry about further support from her Asian neighbors...
Today, he went on, this system is being endangered by Southern officials who refuse to respect rights guaranteed by the Constitution and by civil rights groups which "through despair or ignorance of the federal system seek to invoke the power of the federal government to enforce personal rights...
...good to eliminate segregation in housing if nobody wants to move out of the ghettoes," he writes; but in Boston last year there was an active project helping Negroes to move out of the ghettoes. He chastises Negroes for not stimulating in their children a desire to seek education, but he ignores the tutorial projects of the Northern Student Movement, and the activities of Negro churches and settlement houses...
...though the Bureau performs these several functions, the core of its operation is counseling. Upwards of six hundred students appear yearly--about half on their own initiative and half referred by other advisors--to seek counsel on a myriad of academic and more intimate emotional problems. The Bureau sets no rigid limits on what topics it will discuss, since a student's academic success often depends as much on his personal relations with family or girl friend as in his intrinsic ability or interest in studying...