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...economic upheavals. On the other side is nationalism: the heady hope of creating modern states that will lead to African affluence and power. Until African leaders unify divisive tribes and build strong economies, the dream cannot be attained. Over most of Africa, false expectations of instant progress have incited unrest and power drives by rival tribes. Exploited by ambitious politicians, tribalism has become the chief complication of almost every major African conflict...
WHAT'S HAPPENING TO AMERICA? (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Young adults representing a cross section of opinion discuss the nation's unrest. Edwin Newman moderates. Last of a four-part series...
...hours after the student riots erupted, for example, newscasts on O.R.T.F.'s two TV channels casually observed that the troublemakers had returned to their books and all was safe and snug in the land. Then, as turmoil mounted, TV newsmen prepared a two-hour report on undergraduate unrest, but minutes before it was to be aired, the government suppressed...
...journalists most was the case of the evening paper Madrid. Its offenses: quoting a French scholar's reference to the disorders at the University of Madrid, where students have repeatedly clashed with police, and printing a remark by the rector of the University of Salamanca blaming student unrest on a "political vacuum." Finally, there was a piece by Editorial Writer Rafael Calvo Serer. Wrongly anticipating the defeat of De Gaulle, he had written: "What remains clear is the incompatibility of a personal and authoritarian government within the structures of the industrial society and with the democratic mentality...
...speaker was neither Nanterre's Danny the Red nor Columbia's Mark Rudd, but the president of the uncontroversial American Association for Higher Education, Lewis B. Mayhew. University administrators who assume such concern, added Mayhew, are really to blame for much of the current student unrest. A professor of education at Stanford University, Mayhew told some 125 association members in Dallas last week that too many college officials ignore student rights, and that "behind every successful student outbreak stands some administrator who exercised discretion without legitimacy." Part of the problem, he said, lies in the attempt of college...