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...Corporation, for instance, has opposed shareholder resolutions such as the one last year calling on IBM to halt its South Africa operations. It ignored that the nature of the computer company's operations--providing some hardware for the South African security apparatus--would surely seem more to strengthen apartheid's grip on the country than to contribute to the welfare of its Black workers. Last year the Corporation tried to water down its policy even more by ending its automatic ban on investing in banks that make loans to the South African government. Only student protest and a unanimous ACSR...
...while members of the class of '69 occasionally return to Harvard, ROTC hasn't--at least not in its original form. After the turbulence subsided, the Faculty ruled out the possibility of a club for ROTC because it felt a club would be "just a fig leaf apparatus to cover the actual group," according to Wilcox...
...good third of The Soviet Union and the Arms Race discusses the inner workings of the Soviet military industry. Holloway laboriously describes the defense bureaucracy and the apparatus of weapons production. The Soviet economy is geared to defense production--which absorbs the best minds, skills, and resources available--and hampered by it, as each year it gobbles roughly 12 percent of the Gross National Product. The chronic problem of the industry is its discouragement of innovation from below, which reflects the general rigidity of the economy. Holloway points out that Soviet research and development continually stresses evolutionary, rather than revolutionary...
Though Israel's censors have suppressed or delayed some breaking news, particularly during wars or incidents of terrorism, journalists have generally viewed the censorship apparatus as an irritation that could be circumvented if necessary. Reporters send material out in packages or via couriers; sometimes they simply leave the country to file sensitive stories...
...designed a portable drive system the size of a camera bag that can run the Utah heart for twelve hours. It may be ready by 1985. Researchers at the Cleveland Clinic, as well as Jarvik, are now working on hearts with implantable motors. In ten years, the only external apparatus needed by an artificial-heart patient may be a 5-lb. battery pack...