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...leaders of groups against Harvard's investment policy contend that even if American companies were to initiate labor reforms, the firms would have no practical effect on the apartheid system because they employ only four-tenths of 1 per cent of the black work force in South Africa. American companies in which Harvard holds stock serve only to bolster the apartheid system by supplying the South African white-minority government with the funds it needs to continue building a strong military and police force, the anti-apartheid group...
...matter how worrisome the Snepp case may be to U.S. public servants who break promises to keep secrets, they do not have to contend with anything like the Official Secrets Act in Canada or Britain, where it is a crime to disclose any government document without permission. These laws are currently under fire in both countries, as a result of three cases...
Some art patrons and dealers defend the illegal trade. They contend that it has in fact preserved ancient objects that might otherwise be neglected or lost by countries too impoverished to take proper care of them...
...Although culture is a game people play, cultural politics is hard ball. The Georgians, for example, feel that they don't receive their fair share of the economic returns or power in politics. They contend this is because they are non-Russians," he said...
...that Arthur Burns would approve. Carter, a low-interest populist, probably hoped for a policy change to easier money when he appointed Miller, but he must know better by now. Both Miller's target and some of his rhetoric are so close to Burns' as to make many moneymen contend that, for all the differences in personality and style, Miller is a bred-in-the-bone central banker after all. Says Charls Walker, former Deputy Secretary of the Treasury: "I lost about $100 in bets that Burns would be reappointed. I'm thinking of asking for my money back. Arthur...