Word: crucially
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...withdrawal, I acknowledge that there is room for disagreement regarding the potential benefits of progressive employment practices, the importance of American investment and technology to South Africa, the usefulness of a positive American example to other firms, and other points discussed in your report of last April. Of crucial importance, however, is an argument to which your report gives a passing allusion, but no refutation: the effect of American investments in South Africa on American foreign policy...
...line's most crucial effort of the day came in the middle of the third quarter, when the Minutemen went for a first down on fourth and three at the Harvard 25. UMass halfback Cliff Pedrow went off left tackle and found no promised land. First down, Harvard...
...first difficulties came from Israel's Premier Menachem Begin, who almost immediately began raising objections to what Vance had thought was an agreed-upon moratorium on new Israeli settlements on the West Bank. Next, both Jordan and Saudi Arabia, whose support is crucial to U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, openly criticized the Camp David agreements. Other protests arose like a sandstorm, not only from such radical states as Libya, South Yemen and Algeria, and, of course, the Palestine Liberation Organization, but also from Syria and such moderate and normally friendly states as Bahrain, Qatar, North Yemen, Kuwait...
...Khalid (who is due to arrive in Cleveland this week for treatment of a heart condition) and with Crown Prince Fahd, Vance explained the Camp David agreements point by point, answered questions and urged the Saudis to join the peacemaking process. Saudi support, or at least neutrality, is considered crucial to the future negotiations. But the Saudis had publicly described the Camp David results as unacceptable, and they remained adamant. There was no "final verdict" except an assertion that some kind of dialogue should continue...
Luther Ragin '76, a freshman proctor, told the crowd that U.S. and European multinational corporations "help to efficiently administer the apartheid system." The companies provide the South African government with crucial technology, tax revenues, and important goods and services, he added...