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Last week's departures bring to more than 70 the number of big U.S. firms that have decided to abandon their South African operations in the past two years. Among companies rumored to be contemplating sell-offs in South Africa are Xerox and R.J. Reynolds Industries. Indeed, as racial unrest continues and pressure mounts on U.S. companies to sever more and more ties, it is likely that the 240 remaining American firms have at least a plan for evacuation. Says Wall Street Analyst Pierre Rinfret, a consultant to several corporations with South African operations, including Chrysler and Tenneco...
Even the elimination of ballistic missiles raises questions. Are we to abandon the invulnerable part of our deterrent -- the submarine-based missile forces -- and return to the worries of the 1950s, when our retaliatory forces consisted of bombers on a small number of bases susceptible to surprise attack? The Administration has underscored that the Soviets invest many times as much as do we in strategic defense. Can our bombers be assured of penetrating the heavy Soviet air defense in the '90s -- especially if we were to "share" our strategic-defense technologies, as we have promised...
What makes this response so astounding is that the cause of the accident couldn't be more patent. The suspect, Brian Confoy, alledgedly got rip-roaring drunk, seated himself behind the wheel of his car, and drove with reckless abandon, mowing down Ms. Steel in the process...
Ideology, Reynolds thus implies, is the proper--in fact the only--standard by which justices should be evaluated. By refusing to abandon more than 20 years of consistent judicial reasoning and a rights-based approach to the Constitution in order to jump on the Reagan bandwagon, Brennan utterly fails to meet the Reynold's test of judicial competence. If Brennan is a dangerous judge because of his generally liberal opinions, then only a committed conservative can save the country and the honorable Court...
Much of Kinnock's success has come despite a bold -- and, for Britain, potentially dangerous -- policy on national defense. Labor delegates last week overwhelmingly reaffirmed the party's commitment to abandon Britain's independent nuclear deterrent and close down all six U.S. nuclear bases in the country. That antinuclear posture has helped Kinnock unite his party, but he is gambling that it will not alienate mainstream voters and cost Labor the election, as it was largely responsible for doing in 1983. If a Labor government under Kinnock carries out that policy, the blow to the alliance would be greater than...