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Consider, for example, the case of helicopter pilot Thompson, who landed his craft in the midst of the slaughter by the Americal and who had his machine gunner train his weapon on Lietenant Calley. Calley was made to abstain from shooting 10 women and children whom Thompson whisked away to safety in his helicopter. Even though he had initially filed a report with superiors which condemned the killings, Thompson submitted another statement that the rescued civilians were hiding in a bunker "located between friendly and hostile forces engaged in a heavy fire fight." Thompson won the Distinguished Flying Cross, even...
There are two issues involved, one central, the other peripheral. The peripheral issue concerns the decision of the University to abstain in the voting on the church resolution requiring the company to disclose all relevant information concerning its relationship with Portugal and Angola. In pragmatic terms, the issue has already been settled. The means employed by the University have been questioned but it seems to me that, here, not only does the end justify the means, but the refusal of the President to take what could have been a symbolically impressive but non-productive stand against the Gulf...
Pompidou also sought to split his opposition, and he succeeded. The French Communist Party ordered its partisans to vote non, in order to signify their rejection both of European capitalism and Pompidou's "social regression." Socialists, on the other hand, decided to abstain, and parties of the center were divided. It remained for the Gaullists to turn out the decisive oui and thereby provide Pompidou with demonstrable proof of his popular support when European leaders meet in Paris next October to draw up terms for turning the Six into...
...That the Harvard Corporation reconsider its April 19th decision and announce its support for the shareholder resolution concerning disclosure of Gulf's activities in Angola. In their April 19th statement the President and the Fellows declared their intention to abstain from voting on this disclosure resolution because Gulf had given them "a commitment that it will provide the full range of information requested by the resolution in a forthcoming issue of its company publication." We cannot understand why the Corporation refuses to support a resolution that endorses the very course along which Gulf is supposedly proceeding. At the very least...
Yesterday Bok released the statement explaining hat the Corporation would not sell its Gulf stock and would abstain from voting on a proxy resolution requiring Gulf to issue a report disclosing its operations in Angola...