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...prime mandate, it also holds out a measure of hope for Blacks and "coloreds" in South Africa to again basic workplace dignity, economic parity, and eventual political justice. While these goals may be only marginally furthered by concerned American involvement. They will not be furthered at all by a fruitless and pious and spasm of divestiture by precisely those American institutions which South Africa's Nationalist government would be happiest to ignore...

Author: By --jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Harvard's Role | 2/27/1985 | See Source »

...Administration's various efforts to curtail the drug trade have by no means been fruitless. The amount of cocaine seized in the U.S. has increased thirtyfold since 1977, and the wholesale price of a kilo of coke in Miami has jumped from $23,000 to $35,000 in the past six months. In one two-week period a month ago, Florida authorities confiscated over two tons of the drug, more than was seized by all federal agents in 1981. But the record amounts of cocaine intercepted may only serve to prove that there are record amounts of cocaine pouring into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fighting the Cocaine Wars | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

Debating whether terrorist acts are a justified, or even a rational, expression of this resentment is fruitless. The point is that the United States makes itself more vulnerable to extreme or symbolic attacks by terrorists in foreign nations depending on the degree to which citizens of that nation perceive the U.S. as acting against their interests. What Americans have not yet grasped is that terrorism is often a necessary byproduct of misguided foreign policy. Because the United States has acted carelessly, even recklessly, as a world power. Americans abroad have become ready targets for anti-American or anti-imperialist sentiment...

Author: By Holly A. Idelson, | Title: A Little Foresight | 12/11/1984 | See Source »

...danger. But Wall Streeters are now saying that Steinberg's battle plan looks like so much huffing and puffing. Though he has said he may buy nearly 50% of Disney stock, Steinberg's search for other investors to go in with him has so far been fruitless. Also, his fight to unseat Disney's board of directors looks doomed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Takeovers: Is Steinberg the Big Bad Wolf? | 6/11/1984 | See Source »

...alerted the Soviets and offered suggestions aimed at minimizing the problem. The Soviets, enraged, accused the U.S. of plotting with the Sakharovs. Shultz's efforts to open some kind of dialogue with Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin, who has been considered the Soviet who best understood American ways, have been fruitless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The Inscrutable Adversary | 5/28/1984 | See Source »

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