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...more American jobs. Detroit analysts figure that higher prices should hold sales of foreign cars in the U.S. to 1.6 million this year; had there been no devaluation, the figure would have been 1.7 million. Price increases will also accelerate a decline already under way in steel imports; Derrick L. Brewster, vice president of Chicago's Inland Steel, forecasts that steel imports will fall 20% this year, to about 14 million tons. Result: about 100,000 cars bought by Americans this year will be assembled by workers in Los Angeles or Flint, Mich., rather than in Wolfsburg or Yokohama...
Professors who signed the pertition at Harvard are Bednjamin Aaron, visiting professor of Law and Business Administration: Derrick A Bell, Gary G. Bellow, harold J. Bermin. Stephen G. Breyer, and Victor Brudney, professors of Law; Clark Byse, Bussey Professor of Law and Abraham J. Chayes, Jerome A. Cohen Vern Countryman, and Alan M. Dershowitz, professors...
Farber seems to agree with Gulf's critics that whatever the corporation's avowed mission in Angola, profit-making and the maintenance of colonialism have been wedded in a marriage symbolically consummated with the penetration of colonial territory by the corporate derrick. Farber specifies that "in the re-negotiation of the concession agreement in 1969 (when the drilling investment was beginning to pay off) the government was prepared to defer the deadline for partial relinquishment of the Gulf concession area, as the company had hoped, in return for advance payment of royalties that would help ease a tight budget situation...
...contacted PALC-AFRO and it agreed to send a representative. Stephen Marglin, professor of Economics, and Derrick Bell, professor of Law, also agreed to speak in favor of the position that Harvard should divest its Gulf stock. The arrangement of the "pro" side was relatively simple to organize, in striking contrast to our attempts to gain speakers for the "con," or Administration side of the question...
...Derrick Bell, professor of Law and adviser to the defendants, defended the occupation and urged the Committee to set a new precedent so that "all of us will know when a moral action can be deemed justifiable in a University community...