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...tobacco trade, the problem will remain intractable. But powerlessness should not excuse Harvard from adopting a policy of divestiture of its Philip Morris stock. Even if divestiture dots nothing to force Philip Morris to alter its foreign trade practices, the moral justification for financially supporting tobacco production and export is even thinner than for investing in South Africa or nuclear weapons production, the other hotly debated divestiture issues. Continuing to ignore--or worse, endorse--the injustice our tobacco industry imposes crisis. Instead, our silence will not add to our responsibility for the consequences...
Another Reagan project will require the Government to honor farm-export contracts if deliveries are scheduled within 270 days of an announced Government embargo. Farmers thus can avoid the kind of damages they suffered when the Carter Administration banned grain sales to the Soviet Union in 1980 after that country invaded Afghanistan. Reagan also said that he plans a $250 million increase in export credits to help U.S. farmers compete for Third World markets...
...Christmas night, CBS aired a symposium among reporters and business executives exploring why each side mistrusts the other, and asking whether the network overemphasizes negative news. NBC, since 1980, has aired three shows on the abstruse topic of competition between the U.S. and Japan for productivity and export trade...
Aside from export setbacks-prices for copper and cobalt dropped sharply-much of the loan money that flowed in was not spent wisely. Among Mobutu's development projects was a huge undertaking to dam the Zaïre River and to build a 1,100-mile-long power line to the Shaba copper-producing region at a total estimated cost of about $1 billion. Eight months after the power was finally turned on in 1981, the current was switched off. Shaba province happens to be self-sufficient in electricity. Says one Western diplomat: "If ever there was a white...
...film And God Created Woman (1956), which he co-wrote and directed, Vadim stripped her of her stockings and everything else, turning her into an international sensation. Over the next 17 years she was to make some 25 films and become France's most ogled export...