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Certainly the U.S. should not allow itself to be pushed, by the threat of Communist advances, into a policy toward South Africa that is against its self-interest. But all the past reasons for the U.S. support of South Africa-trade, raw materials, strategic position -fade in comparison with the great symbolic issue. 'South Africa has made itself into a kind of international acid test of decency on race. This is not to say that South Africa must be opposed unconditionally on all issues. But the U.S. cannot support the present government unless its policies change. This indeed...
Reprisal Fear. Still, the impossible Moluccan illusion is unlikely to fade, even in defeat. The terrorists are children or grandchildren of 4,000 Moluccan soldiers and their dependents who left their Indonesian archipelago in 1951 out of fear of reprisals for supporting the Dutch against the Indonesian independence movement. The Moluccan exiles in The Netherlands (they now number 40,000) cling fanatically to the dream of a future free "Republic of the South Moluccas" in the Indonesian archipelago. Angered by the refusal of the Hague government to support their cause, seven of the young Moluccans now in prison hijacked...
...dollars. He says he has never felt "any inordinate alumni pressure" to take more athletes, but says this might result from the fact that Harvard has "never had a big string of losing teams." If Crimson athletes were suddenly to falter, if the lure of Harvard were suddenly to fade, Jewett concedes the future might bring more pressure...
...doomsday forecasts. He argues that the doomsayers have not taken account of how the market system can motivate public and private enterprise to develop successful alternatives. As for population, says he, birth rates will fall dramatically as living standards rise, especially in Third World countries. Food shortages will fade as production techniques improve. Pollution can be controlled when it is recognized that the problem is not growth but a misallocation of resources. Says he: "Because we do not consider that people 'own' clean air, clean water, 'quiet' and so on, we cannot easily extract payment from...
Conversation ceased, Tommy rolled over to listen, even Joyce's smile seemed to fade. I felt like I had just told Pope Gregory I didn't want to go on the second Crusade. And I was standing in the Vatican...