Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That is precisely the point. By talking to Botha, black leaders considered implacable enemies of apartheid provide him with a political breakthrough. They handshake him out of isolation and invest him with the credentials of international respectability. Televised images of black leaders welcoming him to their lands bolster his ritual argument: southern Africa is an interlocking unit that cannot hope to solve its problems without South Africa's wealth and skills. More immediately, the visible evidence that black African states are cooperating with him helps Botha undermine the sanctions campaign in the U.S. and Europe. "Allegations that South Africa...
...from tobacco companies to protest their unethical business dealings in other countries seems to be an immense inconsistency. Harvard should wield its influence as a stockholder to influence the tobacco companies--even though it still hasn't used that weapon to retaliate against companies for their involvement in the apartheid state...
Does this mean Harvard will finally divest from South Africa on the grounds that the promotional techniques of apartheid are often heavyhanded, and the birth certificates of Blacks there are not equipped with warning labels...
...seems hypocritical for President Bok to send students announcements on Harvard's commitment to fighting racial discrimination and insensitivity, as he did last year, while Harvard's investment policy continues to help to support apartheid...
...members of the Board of Overseers furiously scrubbing away at tears caused by the thought of an unwarned African puffing on a cigarette, when the thought of tens of thousands of Africans killed fighting for rights basic to humanity evokes a reciting of the obligatory,"Yes, apartheid is a terrible injustice," followed by the resumption of the tea party...