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...Thomson said he called Woods last week in London, where Woods is finishing his book on Steven Biko, the dead leader of South Africa's black consciousness movement...
Woods was unable to give a definite answer over the telephone, but will come here to discuss Harvard's offer next week, Thomson said. Woods will be in this country to speak to United Nations representatives about the situation in South Africa...
Before the government placed a fiveyear banning order on him, Woods was the editor of the East London Daily Dispatch. However, he made more impact through a nationally syndicated column, in which he regularly criticized the apartheid system, Thomson said...
Percy Qoboza, editor of South Africa's largest black newspaper and a former Nieman fellow, is still in jail in South Africa, Thomson said...
...Thomson said Qoboza, who was detained in the same government crackdown in which Woods was banned, is apparently in good physical condition...