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...then by others, it seems to me no reason to expand the assets and the wealth of the South African economy by investing now in view of the serious risks. Conditions will deteriorate in that country in the very near future, and those assets will be used to the detriment, rather than the benefit, of black South Africans...
...inherent Chinese fear of Soviet military forces massed along the Sino-Soviet border, and Chinese desire to play the "American card" in a sort of balance of power game. I think the second reason was clearly Taiwan, to entice the United States away from the Taiwanese--certainly to the detriment of Taiwan, from the Taiwanese viewpoint. The third reason is that the standard of living in China is still very, very low in comparison to the United States and even to the West and the Soviet Union. I think the Chinese were quite clear in pointing out in their recent...
Trying to offset the political effects of his poor attendance record in 1977, Griffin stayed close to the Senate floor this year, to the detriment of his campaign. He is now back in Michigan attempting to make up for lost time, helped by a campaign treasury of about $1.5 million, nearly twice as large as Levin's. Says Griffin: "The mistake I made was to make that decision [to retire] and then to announce it as early as I did. I should have waited...
...this point, along with the South Boston racists who oppose bussing on the grounds that any child, no matter how bright, suffers from limited capabilities when he is placed in a classroom situation with black children. You are, in effect, telling us that the black community is a detriment to itself; perhaps you should collaborate with Moynihan on that issue--after all he espouses the belief that it is the black family here in America which is at fault for black society's misery and poverty. To a rational human being, these statements sound absurd, yet you, Mr. Kilson, adhere...
Treasurer Bob Jennings sees the financial side of being independent from the University as a detriment, but also sees the Club's autonomy as a plus. "If they would just buy us two or three balls a year that would just buy us two or three balls a year that would be great," he said last night...