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...only at the government but at the liberals, who are seen as more hypocritical than the Afrikaner. When Diamond Tycoon Harry Oppenheimer and other leading, well-meaning white businessmen set up the Urban Foundation to help improve the quality of life of black Africans, the reaction of many black spokesmen was that this would simply ameliorate apartheid rather than change anything basic. Says one black African editor: "Oppenheimer wakes up one morning after a good dream and gives a million dollars. We don't want charity." The black hope for a peaceful solution has drastically diminished...
Third World spokesmen are generally skeptical of such overtures, fearful that they might perpetuate "cultural imperialism." The officials prefer to go it alone. To that end, Third World representatives will meet later this month in Kinshasa to lay plans for expanding their press pool. And they are almost certain to reintroduce last fall's defeated press-control proposal at the 1978 UNESCO general conference in Paris...
Most of the women on the Harvard women's studies committee think a Harvard program needs departmental status to give it political clout. But spokesmen for the UMass, Penn, and Barnard programs say they are pleased with their non-departmental rank, because it allows an interdisciplinary approach, and allows them to pressure other departments. Parlee does say that she would prefer to see a regular department, but the Barnard committee opted for a program as the most easy route...
Other Likud leaders were offering hints about how a Begin government would solve the pressing domestic problems that were, in part, responsible for Labor's defeat. Party spokesmen declared that Begin would lower the number of government ministries from 21 to twelve, bring down the annual inflation rate from 39% to 15% within 18 months by slashing $500 million from the budget-mostly in nondefense areas -and encourage private enterprise...
...Spokesmen for the fire department and the University police said yesterday they do not know the cause of the blaze...