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tumn of 1977 and just three months later Donald Woods escaped, left his country and has since devoted his life and M. DAVID LEE, Principal in Charge of Urban Design, Stull Associ- SALLY SHELTON, Harvard Fellow, Center for International Affairs, energies to attacking the apartheid policies that he has ates, Boston, Ma.; Design Arts Policy Panel, National Endowment Harvard University, Cambridge, Ma. written about so often. for the Arts WILLIAM SOUTHERLAND, International Representative for MAURICE LEWIS, Anchor, WLVI-TV 56, Boston, Ma. Southern Africa of the American Friends Service Committee, A close friend of Steve Biko, one of the key founders of MARGARET MANNING, Book Editor, The Boston Globe, Boston, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Africa South Africa's Black Consciousness Movement, Woods ex- Ma. MEREDITH STANLEY, Administrative Assistant to Governor Gallen, posed the brutal treatment Biko received while a prisoner in ROBERT MANNING, Editor in Chief, The Boston Publishing Concord, N. H. a South African jail — treatment that eventually killed him. Company, Boston, Ma. BASIL TOMMY, Special Assistant, Planning and Development, Ever since, Woods has challenged the official cover-up of BRUCE MANUEL, Book Review Editor, Christian Science Monitor, Boston Housing Authority, Boston, Ma. Biko's killing and demanded an inquest. Boston, Ma. JOAN TOMMY, Boston, Ma. ALEXANDRA MARSHALL, Author, Boston, Ma. DIANE VALLE, Harbor Greenery, Boston, Ma. His articles on Biko, on the need for the international com- H. KENDALL NASH, President and General Manager, Nash JAMES S. VARN, Executive Director, The Center for New munity's condemnation of apartheid and his two books — Communications Corporation, Boston, Ma. Hampshire's Future, Concord, N. H. BIKO and ASKING FOR TROUBLE, focus with relentless OLIVIA NYHAN, Speech Pathologist, Fernald School, Waltham, Ma. THEMBA VILAKAZI, Representative, African National Congress of Parker House, Boston, Massachusetts perception on the inherent evils of South Africa's double DAVID NYHAN, Assistant Managing Editor, The Boston Globe, South Africa, Boston, Ma. standard. His eloquence has found audience among the Boston, Ma. JoANNE WILBURN, Executive Assistant to Jerry Dunfey, Dunfey THOMAS F. O'BRIEN, Sales Manager, Coldwell Bankers, Boston, readers of the world's leading newspapers — The London Hotels, Boston, Ma. Ma. September 28, 1981 Observer and The New York Times — television viewers JOHN O'BRYANT, Vice President, Student Affairs, Northeastern JANICE P. WILLIAMS, Corporate Secretary and Program Director, and radio listeners around the globe. University, President, Boston School Committee, Boston, Ma. Center for Constructive Change, Durham, N. H. ROBERT PALMER, Director of Community Relations, Polaroid LORETTA WILLIAMS, Director of Social Responsibility, Unitarian He has taken his cause directly to world leaders, meeting Universalist Association, Boston, Ma. Welcome to the New England Circle and the start of our with former President Jimmy Carter at the White House, Corporation, Cambridge, Ma. eighth Circle year . ALVIN POUSSAINT, M.D., Harvard University School of Medicine, PERCY WILSON, Fellow, JFK School of Government, Institute of British Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington and as the first Boston, Ma. Politics, Cambridge, Ma. Our purpose is to assemble for discussion of social, politi- private citizen ever to address the United Nations Security BARRY REED, Attorney/Novelist, Boston, Ma, DONALD WOODS, Journalist, Author, London, England cal, literary and educational topics; our goal is to exchange Council. LARRY SALES, Host, Urban Update, WNAC-TV 7, Boston, Ma. RICHARD W. YOUNG, Executive Vice President, Polaroid Corpora- ideas and opinions that can lead to constructive change in He says he will return someday to his homeland. Mean- ERNEST J. SARGEANT, Attorney, Boston, Ma. tion, Cambridge, Ma. our personal lives and in our nation. while, as the international battle against apartheid contin- Donald Woods, who will lead the discussion at our seven- ues to be waged with increasing intensity he continues teenth meeting, is a South African with an international his work — a commitment that has remained steady, even reputation as an opponent of that government's apartheid as global policies shift. It is that work and some of the policies — a reputation he first began to build as one of his more recent policy shifts that Donald Woods will discuss country's most vigorous and outspoken newspaper editors. with us this evening. His persistence as a fighter for fairness caused his govern- ment to ban him and his writings and to place him under Your Hosts . virtual house arrest. That was four years ago, in the au- . Jack, Bill, Bob, Walter, Roy and Jerry Dunfey PREVIOUS GUEST SPEAKERS GUESTS MIKE BARNICLE, Columnist, The Boston Globe, Boston, Ma. ROBERT FITZGERALD, Vice President, Corroon & Black of Massachusetts, Boston, Ma. CIRCLE JIM BOYD, Anchor, WCVB-TV 5, Needham, Ma. WILLIAM GALLAGHER, Vice President, International Textron, ONE AUTHOR RICHARD N. GOODWIN LARRY BROWN, Executive Director, Harvard University School of Providence, R. I. Public Health, Boston, Ma. ANDREA WASSERMAN GARGIULO, Chairwoman, The Licensing TWO HISTORIAN DR. HENRY STEELE COMMAGER DAVID BRUDNOY, Host, The David Brudnoy Show, WRKO Radio; Board, City of Boston, Boston, Ma. Entertainment Editor, WNAC-TV 7, Boston, Ma. THREE FORMER UNITED STATES AMBASSADOR TO CANADA THE REVEREND ROBERT GOLLEDGE, Vicar, Old North Church, JAMES CARROLL, Author, Boston, Ma. Boston, Ma. KENNETH M. CURTIS KENNETH CARSTENS, Executive Director, International Defense & THE REVEREND MICHAEL F. GRODEN, Director, Archdiocesan FOUR GEORGIA STATE SENATOR JULIAN BOND Aid Fund for South Africa, Cambridge, Ma. Planning Office for Urban Affairs, Boston, Ma. DENISE CARTY-BENNI Associate Professor of Law, Northeastern JOHN E. HAIRE, New England Manager, Fortune Magazine, Boston, FIVE FORMER MASSACHUSETTS CONGRESSMAN MICHAEL HARRINGTON University, Boston, Ma. Ma. NATALIE CHRISTIAN, Anchor, WLVI-TV 56, Boston, Ma. LINDA HARRIS, Host, 4 Today, WBZ-TV 4, Boston, Ma. SIX UNITED STATES SENATOR EDWARD M. KENNEDY KENNETH HARTNETT, Editor, Boston Herald American, Boston, JOHN COLE, Editor/Author, Maine Times, Topsham, Me. SEVEN AUTHOR & COLUMNIST JIMMY BRESLIN Ma. WILLIAM COTTER, President, Colby College, Waterville, Me. SHIRLEY HICKS, President, Eastern Urban League of Massachusetts, EIGHT FORMER UNITED NATIONS AMBASSADOR ANDREW YOUNG CALLIE CROSSLEY, Reporter, WCBH-TV 2, Allston, Ma. Boston, Ma. BARRY HILLENBRAND, Bureau Chief, Time Magazine, Boston, Ma. NINE HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST CORETTA SCOTT KING KENNETH CURTIS, Attorney; Former U. S. Ambassador to Canada; Former Governor, State of Maine, Portland, Me. ANN HIRSCHBERG, Project Coordinator, Conference on Children in Youth, Portsmouth, N. H. TEN UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES SPEAKER LAURENCE CUTLER, Principal, Ecodesign/SPC International, Cambridge, Ma. ANN HUGHES, Instructor, Whittemore School of Business, Univer- THOMAS P. "TIP" O'NEILL, JR. sity of New Hampshire, Durham, N. H. SHERRIE STEPHENS CUTLER, Principal, Ecodesign/SPC Interna- ELEVEN ECONOMIST JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH tional, Cambridge, Ma. FRED JERVIS, President, Center for Constructive Change, Durham, N. H. TWELVE PRESS SECRETARY TO THE PRESIDENT, JODY POWELL JOHN DALZELL, Senior Training Specialist, Wang Laboratories, Lowell, Ma. HUBERT JESSUP, Producer & Host, 'The Baxters WCVB-TV 5, Needham, Ma.; Host, Hubert Jessup Show, WHDH Radio, Boston, THIRTEEN NEW YORK MAYOR EDWARD I. KOCH JULIE DUNFEY, Researcher, Esdaile, Barrett & Esdaile, Boston, Ma. Ma. FOURTEEN CONSUMER ADVOCATE RALPH NADER KAREN DUNFEY, Administrative Assistant, Putnam, Hayes & FRANK N. JONES, Director, The Boston Committee, Boston, Ma. Bartlett, Boston, Ma. MARIA KARAGIANIS, Reporter, The Boston Globe, Boston, Ma. FIFTEEN FEMINIST GLORIA STEINEM ROY DUNFEY, Realtor, Wakefield, Ma. THE REVEREND BRIAN KELLEY, St. Paul's Cathedral, Boston, Ma. DAPHNE W. DWYER II, President, Mott Enterprises Inc., New SIXTEEN UNITED AUTO WORKERS PRESIDENT DOUGLAS A. FRASER MONSIGNOR PHILIP KENNEY, Diocese of Manchester, Carpenter York, N. Y. Center, Manchester, N. H. JOSEPH FEASTER, JR., Assistant Counsel, Prudential Insurance MEL KING, State Representative, Boston, Ma. Company of America, President NAACP, Boston, Ma. CHERYL LANDY, Associate Publisher, Bay State Banner, Dorchester, DANIEL FENN, Director, J. F. K. Library, Boston, Ma. Ma. .