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Somoza's critics now include a majority of the nation's businessmen; they claim that none of this would have happened if the Carter Administration had more forcefully pressed the dictator to step down. They point out that U.S. Marines were instrumental in installing the Somoza family in power 46 years ago. In light of that, they charge, Washington should have gone well beyond the cutoff of economic and military assistance that the Carter Administration ordered after Somoza last January rejected an American proposal for a plebiscite to determine his government's future. "Such sanctions have...
...disappear" in Argentina means to be taken away by men in mufti who claim to be members of the country's security forces. When the desaparecido's family applies for habeas corpus, the government often claims to know nothing, if it replies at all. With luck, the missing person reappears in jail. The death of Lestrem, who according to human rights reports had been arrested in 1976, tortured and then released by Argentina's military junta, is a mystery. He could have been killed by the military, surmised a Buenos Aires defense lawyer. Or by leftist guerrillas...
...doctors claim that they are only asking for the city to fill present vacancies so they will no longer be forced to perform duties usually handled by nurses and lab technicians. "They haven't taken us at all seriously," Dr. Daphne Blackburn, one of the picketers, said yesterday. "They've looked upon us as a group of students instead of physicians," she added...
Finally, the claim of consumer sovreignty does not address the people-vs.-profits issue. Would Federated and Allied continue to conduct business-as-usual with a foreign company discovered to be using slave labor? People buy Stevens because it's cheap, and that is so for two reasons: First, the company has made a concerted attempt to "dump" their products to beat the boycott, selling them below cost to keep the retailers on their side. Stevens board chairman Finley reported publicly to President Carter's office that "during the base period 1976-77 we sold our products substantially below cost...
Corporations like Federated think they can prove themselves responsible to the community by handing thousands to charities--concerned consumers should let them know that continued promotion and sale of Stevens linens belies their claim of being socially conscientious members of our community. Andrew Kahn...