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• Senghor of Senegal Steps Down

  President Leopold Sedar Senghor, 74, of Senegal steps down today after 20 years in office and is replaced by Mr. Abdou Diouf, who has been his Prime Minister for the past 10 years. It was essentially Senghors international stature as intellectual and world-renowned poet that put his poor and arid country on the map. Now by retiring to smooth the succession and in going against current African trends by recently setting up a functioning multi party democracy, Senghor has displayed an independence and foresight rare in the continent.
• S. A. Professor Resigns

  Mr. Adam Small, one of South Africa's leading Coloured intellectuals, has resigned his teaching post at the troubled University of the Western Cape, citing the enforced closure of the Coloured institution as one of his reasons. The University has been closed since June 11 following student demonstrations against alleged restrictive rules and White domination in running the institution.
• Coloured academics refuse to take part in 'witch-hunt'

  Three coloured academics have resigned from an otherwise all-white committee investigating readmissions to the Universty of the Western Cape, which was closed last week after student disturbances. The three, Mr. Adam Small, head of the university's philosophy department, Mr. G. J. Gerwel, lecturer in Afrikaans, and Mr. C. T. Johnson, lecturer in botany, had been named by Dr. Shalk van der Merwe, the Minister of Coloured Affairs, to serve on the committee with 10 white academics. A spokesman for their staff association said last night that they had resigned because the minister had already said that some students would not be readmitted and they did not want to take part in a witch-hunt.