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...Washington's way offers no solution at all, are turning instead to the growing influence of Cuba and the Soviet Union. It was only three years ago, during their lightning advance across Angola, that Zambia's anxious President Kenneth Kaunda rushed to confer with Prime Minister John Vorster, describing the Communists as the 'plundering tigers of Africa.' What are those same tigers now doing right? Nothing very different. But at least they are candid about their own self-interest and know when to hand out the arms and shut...
...cent of the South African black labor force, so any improvement in American labor practices will have virtually no effect on the great mass of South African blacks. The ACSR almost completely disregards the larger, more overarching ways in which these companies provide crucial support to the Vorster government, by supplying strategic materials, technological know-how, tax revenues and much-needed foreign reserves...
WHILE THE ACSR CONTINUES only to call for still further study, South African blacks each day face arbitrary arrest, torture, poverty-level wages and the complete and systematic denial of fundamental civil and political liberties. Meanwhile the white supremacist South African minority, under the tutelage of the reprehensive Vorster government, daily grows more entrenched. Harvard students, faculty, alumni and employees opposed to apartheid must now redouble their efforts in the face of Harvard's carefully contrived institutional intransigence. The Corporation appears ready once again to second-guess its advisory committee in adopting a policy even more socially retrograde than that...
...they climbed on the bus that carried the visiting Americans and, standing in the aisle, spoke haltingly of their struggle for civil rights. Two days later, in an empty Port Elizabeth nightclub, with purple curtains and pedestals of flowers as a backdrop, South Africa's Prime Minister John Vorster met with the same group to argue the cause of apartheid...
...tour was certainly right on top of events. After seeing Vorster and Soweto residents in South Africa, the travelers arrived in Rhodesia on the historic day that the nation's new executive council met for the first time to begin the process of ending white minority rule. That evening Prime Minister Smith played host to the group at his home, accompanied by his new black colleagues on the council: Bishop Abel Muzorewa, Ndabaningi Sithole and Chief Jeremiah Chirau. Smith called on the U.S. to support his "internal settlement" and rebuked America for what he called its "obsession" with...