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Both men, like Kalb, came from news backgrounds. Could it be that former newsmen are marginally more, well, honorable than the rabble of lawyers, lobbyists, military men, bureaucrats, businessmen, and politicians who hold most of the high appointive jobs in any administration...
...which will launder shipments, principally by repacking, relabeling and attaching false certificates of origin. The goods will then be transported to buyers as non- South African products. A lot of South African wine shipments, for example, may soon be carrying Mediterranean markings. Government officials are openly advising South African businessmen on how to get around sanctions. Says Kent Durr, Deputy Minister of Finance and Trade and Industries: "We will remain reliable and consistent suppliers of goods...
Many U.S. businessmen are opposed to either corporate withdrawals or sanctions. "There's a limit on what U.S. companies can do to end apartheid," says a top executive of a major American company with operations in South Africa. "It is a matter for South Africans to decide. The sanctions and withdrawals could hurt the South African people by pulling the rug from under the moderates." That, of course, is the justification many U.S. firms used for opening operations in South Africa in the first place and for remaining so long. But as last week's startling reassessments showed, more...
...shut down a profitable refinery because it might pollute the local environment. This was not just common sense, the Beatty character told his astonished board of directors, but good business as well, for the firm would profit from a dazzling image of social responsibility. While not all real-life businessmen would agree with that kind of thinking, it has spawned success for a small but rapidly growing group of socially conscious investment funds. About half a dozen of these mutual funds % are winning customers by promising to put money into the stocks or other securities of only those companies that...
...organization holds claim to a virtual pantheon of martyrs whose resistance appears more heroic by the day to a vast majority of blacks. In the face of severe criticism by the government, which regards the A.N.C. as "part of the international terrorist network," a number of white South African businessmen, churchmen and other prominent opinion makers have recently chosen to meet with A.N.C. leaders in exile...