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...problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish. And all you have to do for a summit is ring up the Kremlin and say, "Hey, Konstantin, let's get together next week in Geneva...
...profit made from Black miners and factory workers which has allowed apartheid to flourish. It is profit which is made without any concern for moral implications of the gains. And it is profit--not, as President Bok would have people believe, the nature of the University in society--which is at stake...
These might seem like radical ideas, and given the conservative drift of this and other universities it may be. Also for Harvard students, who may have the luck of inheriting a system that allows apartheid to flourish, these acts are probably out of their range of interests...
Like King Henry, Hassan has a fondness for the bold flourish. He took over part of the Spanish Sahara in 1975 by exhorting 350,000 Moroccans to march unarmed into the disputed territory while Spanish soldiers looked on in disbelief. He gained the upper hand in his eight-year desert war with the Marxist Polisario guerrillas by enclosing almost half of the 103,000-sq.-mi. Western Sahara with a 750-mile-long wall of sand and rock. Just last month he caught Western leaders off balance yet again by signing a treaty of friendship with Libya's notorious...
...closing, I would like to emphasize how much the principles of free speech require the understanding and support of all segments of the university community. The administration is primarily responsible for maintaining an environment in which free expression and debate can flourish. But even with the most vigorous efforts on the part of campus officials, free speech will not survive an environment in which many people are indifferent to its existence or hostile to the expression of unpopular thoughts. Only in a community that actively values the open exchange of ideas and strongly disapproves of all forms of censorship...