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WILL THE DISINVESTMENT by the transnationals hurt and hinder efforts at change? The references to the rising Lager mentality whereby South Africans draw the wagons round themselves and dig in for stubborn defense is almost certainly true. But it ought by now be very clear that the pressure white South Africa feels comes primarily from inside, from the vigorous efforts at liberation by the oppressed Black majority. The removal of investments and the disengagement from the economy of South Africa, just reminds white South Africa's governmental leadership that they cannot expect aid and comfort from abroad...
...plaintiffs in Smith v. Board of Mobile County allege that the secular humanism found in the textbooks and the teachings in the Alabama Public School System hinder the parents' efforts to install religious values at home, said Ricki L. Seidman, director of a defense fund helping finance the suit...
...left and violence of the far right. The State Department condemned the attack on Pinochet and hoped the "terrorists will be found and prosecuted in accordance with Chilean law." At the same time, the Administration expressed its concern at the new state of siege, asserting that "such extreme measures hinder the development of the process of dialogue and consensus building...
...takeover forays are in the best interest of small shareholders. Now Pickens has a lobbying organization to help him defend that proposition. Last week in Washington, the wily acquisitor unveiled the nonprofit United Shareholders Association. The group's first goal: a "one share, one vote" rule that would hinder corporate managers from foiling takeover proposals that come up for stockholder votes. At many firms, management-controlled ballots carry more weight than an equal number of votes controlled by those of small stockholders. Said Pickens: "Shareholders are treated like second-class citizens." And if more takeovers result from his crusade, well...
...almost 210 years, the U.S. has muddled along without an official poet laureate. This lack did not noticeably hinder the work of such natives as Poe, Whitman, Dickinson, Eliot, Pound, Stevens, Frost and Robert Lowell. But it bothered Hawaiian Senator Spark Matsunaga, an avid reader and sometimes writer of poems, including one called Ode to a Traffic Light ("Impartial traffic cop/ That blushingly speeding cars do stop...