Word: directing
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...speech last week, Nakasone seemed to be trying to sidestep the bureaucracy with a direct appeal to Japanese businessmen and the public. Some critics thought that Nakasone's call for people to spend $100 on imports was a public relations ploy designed for American consumption, but many Japanese commentators considered it a reasonable and serious proposal. Despite charges that Japanese markets are closed, a wealth of American products are readily available in most Japanese cities and towns. Among them: B.F. Goodrich tires, Mercury outboard motors, Corning cookware, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Avon cosmetics, Simmons mattresses and Apple computers...
...Military assistance," a State Department spokesman said last week, "is neither necessary nor desirable under current circumstances." Still, the congressional backing gives the Administration flexibility to provide more direct military aid in the future. Said another State Department official: "We are delighted that the initiative came from Congress...
...real story was well told by Patrick Flaherty, a graduate student member of the ACSR, in a Crimson article March 3, 1982. Harvard's policy of divesting from banks making direct loans to the South African government had been adopted as a limited concession to student demands for total divestment in 1978. In 1980, this policy compelled the Corporation to divest $50 million in Citibank debt securities after Citibank joined a consortium loan to the South African government. Harvard's action became the focus of press attention which embarrassed both Citibank and South Africa...
Cleaver's objections to Baldwin, then, stem primarily from the fact that Baldwin, like Malcolm X just before his death, believed that the Black movement should concentrate on educating all races, especially young people, about suffering of Blacks and the injustices brought upon them. This focus was a direct repudiation of the factics of action groups like the Panthers that tried to overthrow society. The Fire Next Time, unlike Soul On Ice, is not concerned with history or politics but rather with how it feels to be an outsider, to be Black in a white world. Baldwin believed...
Even if the U.S. pulled out the stops on its support for the contras, most experts agree these forces could not bring about the overthrow of the Sandinistas--an objective that the President has come within a hairbreadth of supporting. Nor is there much chance that Congress will restore direct aid to the contras unless they, and their sponsors in the Administration, are willing to accept a political compromise...