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Former National Security Advisor Robert C. McFarlane told a Kennedy School audience Monday night that military action is only one of "dozens of measures" the United States should employ in an effective strategy to combat world-wide terrorism...
...Landmark the prescription is, indeed, toughness. While other dyslectic programs, such as the highly regarded ones at Southern Illinois University and the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh, employ learning crutches (e.g., tape- assisted reading or tutors during tests), Landmark's 82 students take the work straight as it comes, with lots of it. From 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., five days a week, some students in a special precollege group drill at tasks as elementary as multiplication tables and beginners' reading. Each precollege student also takes a daily one-hour private tutorial...
What is needed now is a careful effort to identify the methods [now used at Harvard to evaluate quality of teaching and education] and to employ them more systematically. For example, there is no reason why every school should not offer its faculty some means of helping to fund promising new courses or innovations in teaching. Nor it is too much to expect that all new assistant professors and teaching fellows should have some form of orientation and assistance to help them develop their abilities in the classroom...
Certain less-than-scrupulous American firms have provided the South African government with the equipment necessary to sustain apartheid. We have already divested from these companies, and rightfully so. Yet while American businesses employ only a small fraction of South Africa's nonwhite work force, many have brought about significant changes in the lives of South Africa's nonwhites and have aided the movement for change. General Motors and Kellogg, in defiance of government policy, were the first companies to recognize the Black trade union movement that now constitutes one of the strongest forces for progress. Those American firms which...
...withdrawing from South Africa, American businesses would not only surrender their limited capacity to do good, but would deal a severe blow to South Africa's nonwhites. Those whom American firms directly employ will of course lose their jobs. More important, American disinvestment would check the growth of the South African economy. South Africa's nonwhites, half of whom are already underemployed or unemployed, would feel the brunt of economic stagnation most profoundly. Without a growth rate of at least five percent a year, Black unemployment will continue to rise, and with it the misery of the Black community...