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...joined with other college presidents, at least a week before January 15, to direct a strong letter of protest to the South African government. It included a firm request for an immediate amelioration of the restrictions on Blacks, Rightly or wrongly, Harvard's position is that an effective boycott against South African industry will only exacerbate the position of the Blacks by creating unemployment...
This again leads into what the Reverend Jackson did not say. He did not recommend a boycott here in the United States against all corporations doing business with South Africa. Evidently it is one thing to tell Harvard to divest and another thing to ask Americans to divest. That would mean getting rid of toasters, washing machines, radios, television sets, automobiles ad infinitum. It would mean looking for replacements made by companies not involved with South Africa or doing without the items...
...Black African countries are doing business with South Africa. On a January 20 Kup's show, Boston TV Channel 44, the Reverend Jesse Jackson excused these countries on the basis of necessity whereas the United States in his opinion has the luxury of choice. What choice, the choice of boycott stated above...
...Spartak is the first Soviet athletic team to play in the U.S. since the 1984 Olympic boycott...
...Later when the enormous Olympic surplus of $215 million was announced, Ueberroth and his committee were accused of poor mouthing about a possible shortage of funds. Of course, just weeks before the Games, Ueberroth's insistence that there would be at least a $15 million profit despite the Soviet boycott was greeted with great skepticism. For months Ueberroth had suspected that a large profit was possible. But the threat of catastrophe always hovered over the Olympics, and he was always planning for the unexpected...