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...Southern African Solidarity Committee (SASC) rescheduled for next week a protest planned to take place in a Harvard Corporation member's Boston office after the event drew a limited turnout yesterday...
When the SASC members realized that Monday was Patriots' Day, a state holiday, the students rescheduled the visit for yesterday. The schedule change led to a small turnout of only eight students, SASC members said. The group of eight decided to postpone the protest, they said...
Although students expressed some disappointment at yesterday's low turnout, they said they had not expected a much larger delegation. Ten to 15 students regularly attend SASC meetings, and that is the number expected for next week's visit, members said...
Blumenfeld began his speech by commenting on the low turnout...
This fall's contest promises to be more difficult than in 1985, when the G.O.P. complacently assumed that race alone would defeat Wilder. This time he must inspire a larger than usual black turnout while persuading whites to put aside historic prejudices. To fend off criticism from conservatives, he has distanced himself from Jackson. Some militant black leaders in Richmond resent Wilder's retreat from his roots. But if he becomes Governor, he will have done what Jackson and other protest leaders have been unable to do: build a coalition that can put a black in a Governor's mansion...