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...report to the Harvard community concerning its portfolio companies. The report should (a) identify the current number of such companies; (b) provide information concerning extent of compliance by each company with the Sullivan Principles or their equivalent, the Tutu Principles, and the principle forbidding direct support of the apartheid apparatus; (c) describe the number of portfolio companies with South African operations that have been the subject of dialogue during the past year, the nature of such dialogue, and its results (including divestment...
...Sullivan Principles contain no provisions about the arms and military technology provided by the U.S. to the white repressive apparatus that Silvers recommends reasoning with Nor do the Sullivan Principles prevent American corporations from paying three times as much in taxes to the military government than in wages to Black workers. The Sullivan Principles merely contribute to the perpetuation of American support for oppression...
...chance to consolidate the making of policy, which Meese nominally controlled, with political and legislative strategies. For the past three weeks, at Baker's behest, Darman has coordinated a daily 7:30 breakfast meeting in the White House mess that brought the previously bifurcated realms of the Executive apparatus together on an effective basis for the first time since Reagan took office. As a result of the changes, predicts a senior Administration official, "we'll be less inclined to go with off-the-wall stuff that cannot be implemented...
...dealing with Khomeini in our own way," Mujahedin National Commander Ali Zarkesh, 34, said in his Tehran hideout to an Iranian journalist. (The group's overall leader, Massoud Rajavi, is in exile in Paris.) "We are slowly suffocating his regime, spreading a creeping paralysis throughout his military-police apparatus." The most wanted man on the Ayatullah's hit list, Zarkesh remains convinced that the ruling clerics could be brought down by a violent upsurge of the same sort of resentment that originally brought them to power. "Upon Khomeini's death," he says, "without awaiting further instructions, Mujahedin...
...political experience are also at the heart of the uncertainty about what he represents. He is a Russian who was raised in Siberia, and his background marks him as both peasant born and a man of the people. He spent more than 40 years laboring patiently in the party apparatus. For 34 of those years, he was associated with Leonid Brezhnev, acting as a friend, confidant and aide-de-camp. It was Chernenko who turned up Brezhnev's hearing aid and, on occasion, ordered the translators to speak louder so the old man could hear. The best of good soldiers...