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...ruled against a U.S. law blocking shrimp imports from countries whose boats endanger rare green sea turtles, the environmentalists were again ready for battle. They denounced the decision at a joint press conference, are preparing a letter to President Clinton, and have begun lobbying Congress. The Sierra Club will conduct a summer-long outreach program based on the slogan "Don't trade away the environment...
...ever said was that he was creating a "pure" communist society and whatever he did was done for his country. "My conscience is clear," he told journalist Nate Thayer in a rare interview last October, never admitting his appalling conduct, never regretting the countless executions, the million more dead of starvation and overwork, the living population maimed in body or mind, the entire country reduced to Stone Age survival. Nineteen years after the hated Vietnamese drove him back into the jungle, the evil that he did lives on in Cambodia's traumatized society, poisoned politics, governmental misrule and pitiful piles...
Asserting the importance for the Board ofTrustees to conduct talks privately "even if it'suncomfortable for the rest of us," Radcliffe VicePresident for College Relations Bonnie Clendenningsaid the six trustees who are elected by RCAAensure that alumnae interests are represented onthe 29-member board...
With these Codes in effect, there will be no place for injustices to hide. Ahsan's disquieting image of children "rummaging through rubbish heaps" can be replaced by an image of children being decently housed, clothed and fed because their parents are guaranteed by the Code of Conduct a living wage from the factories. Ahsan indicates that this "argument" is not good enough because it does not consider the childrens' education, their only way out of the "poverty trap." Clearly, though, the living wage enables the childrens' education because it frees them from the desperate necessity to work rather than...
...believe our proposal for a Code of Conduct represents the best and most realistic step that Harvard and other universities can take towards solving the problems of sweatshops such as child labor. The goal of the Code is not to simply wipe our hands clean of the problems in some overseas factories, but to have a positive impact on working and living conditions in those areas. A sentence in the section on child labor in our proposed Code states: "Licensees agree to work with governmental, human rights, and non-governmental organizations as determined by Harvard University and licensee, to minimize...