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...Sullivan Principles may also have a small but significant impact on internal corporate debate. In discussions with managers of American firms in both the United States and South Africa. IRRC found several who said the principles gave them leverage within their own companies when arguing for more progressive labor practices. The argument that "we have to do it to get a good Sullivan rating," while by no means totally persuasive, tipped the decisionmaking scales at times...
...core of the divestiture debate lies a fundamental question: What is the impact of U.S. corporate involvement in South Africa and what would be the effects of withdrawal...
...impact of U.S. corporate involvement on Black South Africans is a subject of fierce debate. Opponents of divestiture argue that foreign capital is beneficial to South African Blacks and that withdrawal would harm them more than whites in the country. There is, these people emphasize, a considerable trickle-down effect from foreign investment that benefits at least those members of the Black labor force who work in the modern sectors of the economy. Economic growth and prosperity will open up new and more skilled jobs for Blacks, produce better wages, and narrow the Black-white income gap, in addition...
Other specialists express skepticism about the impact of Harvard's unusual correspondence with the Polish leaders. "Harvard really doesn't mean that much in Poland," says William E. Schaufele Jr., who served as the American ambassador to Poland from 1978 to 1980. "It may mean something in the broad European context, but not a lot in Poland...
Student projects--the Endowment for Divestiture and the week-long fast by a dozen undergraduates--had little impact on the ACSR's discussions. Some members laughed off the hunger strikers as fanatics or brats--one member ignorantly suggested that the hunger strikers were probably all women interested in losing weight. But if they had little effect on the outcome of Committee deliberations, the fasters at least heightened most of the members' awareness of the gravity of the issue being discussed...