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Daniel Parnell, executive director of the Sullivan committee, said yesterday the committee sent letters to 46 U.S. banks asking them to adopt a policy of not lending to the government of South Africa, or its agencies...
...everybody's favorite panacea to unemployment induced by more efficient foreign competition. While the pressures of free trade displace only a relatively small segment of the domestic labor force, these unemployed are highly visible, and in the context of high unemployment, a democratic government is hard pressed to adopt short-term palliatives. Producers like protectionism because it is a form of government support which interferes least in their affairs. Workers in declining industries like it because it saves their jobs. The government likes it because it is a form of assistance that requires little expenditure. But the only groups protectionism...
ROBERT TRIFFIN: "Controlling the money supply is the best way to fight a recession," says this international money expert. "Certainly, initially, if we are to brake inflation, there will be some difficult periods to go through. The sooner, the faster we do it, the less gradual approach we adopt, the better chance we have to succeed, to turn the corner. I am very encouraged that part of Volcker's approach is an attempt to deal also with the problems posed by the Eurocurrency market. He emphasized more than before the rate of money supply growth on this market, rather...
Wittig said women should adopt a "lesbian consciousness" that rejects the "mythical concept of woman." She said that the concept of "womanhood" subjugates women to men, adding that to free themselves, women must "destroy all categories...
...Tell me when the economic crisis will terminate and I will tell you when we can terminate martial law. Suppose something happens in Iran, suppose something happens in the Middle East. Suppose you adopt a worst possible scenario: there I am at the helm of government and I have decided on the termination of all these measures-and all of a sudden this economic crisis brings all these problems...