Word: dictatorship
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Gaddafi's reputation as an international meddler was firmly established in 1977, when he intervened to support the nightmare dictatorship of Uganda's Idi Amin. He has invaded Chad twice, prompting French President Francois Mitterrand to send French troops to the landlocked African country. Libya and France signed an agreement in 1984 to withdraw each nation's forces. France did so, but Gaddafi promptly embarrassed Mitterrand by reneging. Libya fought a minor border war with Egypt in 1977 and supplied materiel to coup leaders in Burkina Faso in 1983. Gaddafi is suspected of having mined...
...Mendelsohn. Mendelsohn first became involved with the divestiture movement in 1972, when, as a divinity school student, he protested Gulf Oil's operations in Southern Africa. Mendelsohn will probably not say a word about Gulf today, choosing to ignore the fact that this American oil company pays the communist dictatorship of Angola $2 billion in hard currency annually in taxes and royalties. The Angolan regime is kept in power by 30,000 Soviet-armed Cuban troops. Luanda pays these Soviet proxies with the hard currency provided by Gulf. By its own admission, the Angolan regime would collapse without Gulf...
Those who want to use Harvard's stock portfolio to make a moral statement are very selective in their morality. Their criterion for divestiture is not that a company play a role in supporting dictatorship, but only that it operate in South Africa...
...they endorse threatens the community they wish to serve, but should also take into account those cases in which the link between University investment and oppression is much clearer. They should apply a single standard, and call for divestiture from those companies which have been most instrumental in supporting dictatorship, whether it be in Angola, the Soviet Union, or South Africa. Once the perils of divestiture are fully appreciated and the need for a single standard recognized, then will we have a genuine National Divestiture...
...Lieut. General Henri Namphy, the council president and commander of the armed forces who succeeded Duvalier, announced that two more council members, Colonel Max Valles and Alix Cineas, and the government's military adviser, Colonel Prosper Avris, had stepped down. All three men were closely associated with the Duvalier dictatorship, and their appointment had stirred considerable bitterness...