The Soviet Union has wisely allowed national culture to flourish in Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia, but the people of these “captive” nations have little hope of increased independence.
In the November Atlantic, McGeorge Bundy argued that educational institutions must be free to consider the race of their applicants as a qualification for admission, and urged the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the use of “affirmative action" aimed explicitly at helping racial minorities. Here is a selection of responses to that article, many of them edited in the interests of brevity and variety.
A widely traveled journalist and onetime aide to Adlai Stevenson, Mr. Attwood served the Kennedy Administration as Ambassador to Guinea (1961-1963), was Special Adviser to the United States UN delegation (1963-1964), and was President Johnson’s Ambassador to Kenya from the beginning of its independence until this year. He is now editor in chief of Cowles Communications, Inc. This article is drawn from his book THE REDS AND THE BLACKS, to be published in March by Harper Row.