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...sound industrial policy, the Democratic thinkers hasten to add, would not impose Government's will on business, merely offer assistance. Cooperation is a word frequently heard these days in Democratic think tanks. The model is Japan. In Japan, business, government and even labor all seem to work together for the common good, instead of sparring constantly as they...
While many Harvard faculty agree that ethics ought to be taught in the classroom, some hasten to add that students can grapple with difficult issues best with day-to-day practice...
...larger force than needed for self-defense, according to military experts. Before his death last year, Salvadoran Rebel Leader Salvador Cayetano Carpio declared: "The revolutionary process is a single process ... Guatemala will have its hour. Honduras its. Costa Rica, too, will have its hour of glory." To hasten that hour along, the Soviets shipped Nicaragua 15,000 tons of arms last year, while the Cubans stand near by with 153,000 troops. The borders of every country in the region are porous. Honduras, flanked by El Salvador and Nicaragua, is already jittery, as is Costa Rica, which has no army...
Even if South Africa does come to terms with its black neighbors, there is no certainty that peace will hasten the end of its internal policies of racial discrimination. Unquestionably, the new pacts with Mozambique and Angola will deprive black revolutionary movements of bases near South Africa, dealing a heavy blow to their ambitions for fundamental change inside the country. "Peace and apartheid colonialism," seethed the African National Congress in response to the Mozambique accord, "are inherently mutually exclusive." But others point out that reduced tensions can only encourage accommodation by the white minority. U.S. officials, for their part, claim...
...escape poverty fundamentally misinterprets American social history. In fact, no immigrant group--not even those known for educational attainment like the Chinese, the Japanese, and the Jews--escaped poverty through education Rather these groups first moved from poverty to the upper working-class. Then they used education to hasten their entry to the middle and upper middle classes...