Word: fox
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...demand for that type of skill has made the growing industry even more attractive to giant corporations, since they already have valuable experience in those fields. CBS, Walt Disney Productions, 20th Century-Fox Film Corp. and Dow Jones & Co. have all entered the software business within the past year. CBS and 20th Century-Fox are producing software for games, while Walt Disney makes educational programs. Dow Jones is turning out packages for stock-market analysis...
...words of five white Harvard undergraduates who have lived in South Africa paint a grim portrait of the future of that nation. Gerald M. Benatar '86, Gerald M. Fox '86, Nita Lelyveld '86, Mary J. Menell '85, and one junior who asked not to be identified all agree that change, possibly bloody change, will come. But they disagree on the roles which Harvard and the United States can and should play in causing that change to occur...
...five agreed that the situation is at the same time both stagnant and volatile. "The politics of that country constitute a powder keg," says Fox. He adds that it is a no win situation because the Blacks will stop at nothing less than "one man, one vote," and the whites will never grant that to them. The junior who asked not to be identified explains that although there exists a certain level of trust between the two groups because of the high proportion of white families that employ Blacks as domestic servants, trust disintegrates with the realization that not only...
...African economy is stable enough to withstand total withdrawal of American corporate influence, both the United States and Harvard should divest. "Morally, I support divestiture completely," says Menell. "It's not really a practical question, but the South African government does care what its American ally thinks of it." Fox also argues that divestiture might "frighten" the whites into believing that clinging to apartheid will no longer be tolerated by the world community. He adds that Harvard's divestiture would have little or no effect, but that it would constitute a moral statement that should be made...
...most radical prescription comes from Fox, who suggests that the United States divest completely and channel millions of dollars into the country through the African National Congress to help them in their struggle for power. "I'd he perfectly happy if every Black in South Africa got up tomorrow morning and killed every white because that's the only way apartheid will end," he says. "Of course you'd have chaos for awhile, but the country would survive. Since that won't happen, the United States should financially support any legitimate Black uprising...