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...Pont operates Savannah River, near Aiken, S C., on a non-profit basis for the government. Built by the chemicals giant in 1950 at the behest of the DOE's ancestor, the Atomic Energy Commission, the plant produces plutonium and tritium for nuclear weapons production. Harvard owns almost $5 million of Du Pont stock...
...realization that the current, somewhat retooled system occasionally can work. Skepticism of once-unassailable liberal solutions like divestiture has rightly set in. Harvard continues to own shares in Gulf, and Gulf continues to operate in Angola. But today that company is alive and well in Angola at the behest of the nation's Marxist government. That alone should cast some doubt on protesters' assertions that Gulf was hell-bent on maintaining the existing, repressive regime...
Weinberger and Reagan accordingly sold AWACS to Saudi Arabia and reached an agreement to sell advanced weapons to King Hussein of Jordan (whose family came from Saudi Arabia at Britain's behest in 1946). In the process, the U.S. has simply given Begin more incentive to act intransigently and to defy America. Even Abba Eban, foreign minister in the Israeli Labor governments from 1966 to 1974, said at Harvard this month that "it is better to be alive than to be popular-because if I'm dead, I might be briefly popular at the funeral oration...
...women from taking advantage of family planning clinics, most of which receive some degree of federal support Relying on mere common sense, experts in the field agree that those young people will neither begin bringing up contraception with the folks over dinner nor curb their sexual activity at the behest of Ronald Reagan. Alternate sources of contraceptives are available, but most adolescents patronize the clinic in the first place because they do not have access to a private doctor or because they intelligently desire effective methods to supplement those offered over the counter in drug stores...
...vote the actual money, Congress would not give the President all the additional cuts he wanted. But after Reagan vetoed a stopgap resolution (theoretically shutting the Government down for a day) the legislators passed a bill that reduced spending by another $4 billion. They did so at the behest of Reagan lieutenants who conferred only with Republican leaders and did not so much negotiate as tell them what the President would and would not accept. Moreover, Congress gave Reagan power within broad limits to take that $4 billion out of whichever programs he chose, over the anguished protest of House...