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Every interpretation, of course, has an equal and opposite reinterpretation. The Left's answer to the Right's questionable vision of events goes like this: if the Eastern bloc has been sensible enough to abandon totalitarianism for political democracy--and even to experiment with free market economic policies--then we should respond in a complementary fashion...
Divestment supporters said they hope this means the University will abandon its policy of divesting only from companies that actively collaborate with the South African government. In a December 1988 report, the Overseers stated that this practice--called "selective divestment"--would only be reconsidered in case of major changes in South Africa...
...from clear that either side is ready to abandon its maximum demands. Says Lawrence Schlemmer, director of Johannesburg's Center for Policy Studies: "What normally precipitates conflict resolution is a need to limit damage." But South Africa is not in a desperate crisis, and neither the government nor the A.N.C. is feeling enough pressure to make concessions on vital issues...
...apartheid system -- legalization of black unions, abolition of the internal pass laws, legalization of some nonracial neighborhoods. These developments, more than sanctions, have helped change white thinking. And if broad new sanctions were to cut deeply into the South African economy, the government's probable response would be to abandon reform, crack down on black protest and make certain that whites got their slice of the shrinking pie first...
...state, of the institutions and the legitimately established government," said the Extraditables, the front group for Colombia's drug traffickers, in a communique last week. Admitting defeat in the drug war launched by President Virgilio Barco Vargas five months ago, the narcolords pledged to surrender their arms and abandon their trade if granted "legal guarantees." Translation: immunity from prosecution for the spasm of violence they committed in response to Barco's crackdown, and freedom from extradition...