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...ironic that during the Bicentennial, an American Secretary of State, in collaboration with Prime Minister Vorster of South Africa, should be the catalyst that has forced Prime Minister Ian Smith to bow to world opinion and agree to majority rule in two years time...
...chronic insomniac, just a sometimes insomniac," Joe claims, but if you had witnessed his marathon bout with sleepless nights, you might begin to wonder just where he draws the distinction. It all began with the none-too-uncommon catalyst: second semester freshman year, the last hourlies before exam period, a semester already marred by negligence and procrastination, and four really rough courses. Then to add wood to the fire we've got the snoring roommate on the upper bunk. Sure, amidst anxiety-ridden times and uncontrollable circumstances, we are all afflicted with the inability to fall asleep for awhile...
...Kissinger brought off his Rhodesian coup? "Personal charm," he quipped blithely to reporters in London. Not exactly; but to a large extent it was Kissinger's uncanny understanding of the realities of power, his shrewd timing, and his recognition that only the U.S. could play the role of catalyst that made it possible...
...Affirmative Action. A meeting of various groups was held to discuss the possibility of developing such a struggle. While there was some hesitancy at first, the overwhelming mood was that of interest. It became clear that if such a struggle could be successfully mounted, it could become a catalyst for democratic rights work, not only in other areas of Harvard, but possibly at other schools...
Soul-Searching. In a sense, Soweto has been smoldering ever since June. The government had quickly dropped its insistence that the Afrikaans language be used as the primary teaching medium in black schools-a rule that had been the catalyst for the earlier rioting. But the policy change, along with other government promises to improve living conditions in Soweto, had merely served to stimulate black demands for more important political concessions, especially among the frustrated young...