Word: eddison
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John C. Eddison, associate director of finance and management for HIID, said Wednesday that the 1974 contract was "certainly a major one, and the largest one we're currently engaged...
HIID now says that an existing program in South Korea (where a one-man despotism is rapidly taking shape) will be terminated at the expiration of its contract this year because, as HIID Associate Director John C. Eddison says, "Harvard feels uncomfortable with political developments in Korea in the past year." He adds that HIID would like to end the involvement sooner except that there is some fear of repercussions against Koreans working with the advisory team if a sudden pullout were to occur...
...those opposing U.S. defiance of the United Nations sanctions against Rhodesia, I read with interest "A Rhodesian Remembers" (Crimson, March 13, 1974). Michael Massing's article was a good overview of this complex life-and-death struggle, with one glaring exception. Mr. Massing referred to Eddison Zvobgo, Deputy General Secretary of the Zimbabe African Nationalist Union (ZANU), merely as "Eddison." If the omission of Mr. Zvogbo's surname was not a typographical error, it is probably one of those "unintentional" slights so typical of how non-white people are commonly treated by whites. I would hope that this small...
...Eddison, the cause of the United States boycott is very important. After the U.N. imposed sanctions and before Congress passed the Byrd Amendment, he says, Rhodesia suffered both economically and psychologically from the world blockade. Foreign reserves dwindled, and the white regime felt isolated, unrecognized by every nation in the world. The Byrd Amendment had two beneficial effects for the Smith Government: It bolstered the Rhodesian economy by providing millions of dollars in foreign reserves, and it demonstrated that the Nixon Administration was sympathetic to the white cause...
...effort to show solidarity with the 14 million Zimbawbe people. Insofar as the longshoremen did unload the Rhodesian asbestos, the action was unsuccessful. But as one organizer pointed out, the protest had a broader purpose: to show support for a people who live in a state of virtual servitude. Eddison told the demonstrators: "It is very good to see some people who don't want racism to survive in Africa appear at six in the morning to be counted...