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Generally, however, we don't put such economic pressure on evil of divesting from all business in all objectionable geographical areas of the world, because that would be following moral outrage to its illogical conclusion. We do not boycott the American farmer because he sells wheat to the Soviet Union. We did not divest from companies that did business in the American South in the 1920s, when racism was institutionalized on a savage scale. And more realistically, we do not divest from companies doing business in Haiti. Chile. H Salvador, or a host of other nations, each with supported system...
...second reason we support divestiture is that it's easy. Heck, even an insulated college kid like me can support corporate divestiture of stocks I don't own and don't really care about. If supporters of divestiture are really serious about it, let's see a boycott of goods made by companies doing business in South Africa. Probably in will be more difficult for John Q. Liberal to do without a multitude of everyday goods, things like oil, automobiles and chemicals from virtually every major manufacturer of those goods...
...corporations which do business in South Africa. Of the top 50 companies in the United States, more than half do some business in South Africa. Companies like CM, Ford, IBM, ITT and Exxon, so intricately connected to our daily lives, have operations in that nation. We would need to boycott everything from automobiles to telephones to maintain that we are morally free of apartheid. Of course, this would be a ridiculous undertaking, but without this isolationism, advocates of divestiture could make no permanent, moral statement which might be of use in fighting apartheid...
...peace initiative. The problem for Jordan in deciding whether to join the peace process is the Arab world. The Reagan initiative (of September 1982) failed because it did not lead King Hussein to join the process. Jordan will not do what (Egyptian President Anwar) Sadat did--face total isolation, boycott, banning and a loss of Arab financial aid. Without a real realignment within the Arab world, and especially until the Saudis stop being afraid of their own shadows, I can't see a situation in which Jordan will risk joining the peace process. Peace cannot be imposed. We cannot impose...
Second-year law student Carol S. Steiker '82, who last year led a campus movement to boycott the Review, beat out 11 other candidates to claim the highest position on the staff of the student-run journal...