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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...goal of divestment is to "send a message" to the Board of Directors of a company and/or other stockholders, why use such an indirect means as the sale of stock, which has no impact on the company? Why not stand up at a stockholders meeting and directly tell the Board of Directors (within earshot of other stockholders) exactly what you think? Selling stock deprives one of this opportunity and has no effect on the company's conduct of business. Samuel O. Sheargren...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Divestment | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

...White House Spokesman Larry Speakes was quick to contrast the casualties of the Libya raid with the 938 people he said had died last year in terrorist attacks around the world, though American officials admitted they had difficulty breaking down how many of these could be called direct or indirect victims of Gaddafi. For once, Gaddafi in his Wednesday talk made no threats of new attacks. But by week's end Radio Tripoli was calling for bloody vengeance. His followers and allies by then had already begun a wave of reprisal attacks. Among them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hitting the Source U.S. Bombers Strike At | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

...George Shultz seemed to be engaged in a kind of Jesuitic legal maneuvering. "We did not have a strategy saying we wanted to go after Gaddafi personally," said Shultz. "We have a general stance that opposes direct efforts of that kind." The implication is that if the attempt was indirect and unofficial, they would be off the hook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gaddafi: Wanting It Both Ways | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

...demonstrations are ostensibly being held to collect signatures demanding a reform of the country's system of indirect elections. In reality, the gatherings have allowed Koreans to air with new vehemence their long-standing complaints against Chun's strongman rule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Korea the Tide Keeps Rising | 4/14/1986 | See Source »

Chirac and his advisers worked through the night and all day Wednesday before settling on a new Cabinet acceptable to Mitterrand. Much of the communication with the Elysee was indirect. A favored channel: regular phone calls between top aides. Mitterrand used the process to reject several Chirac choices. Among them was U.D.F. Leader Jean Lecanuet, 66, whom Mitterrand vetoed as Foreign Minister because of his recent criticism of the President and his past enthusiasm for military ties to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The key appointments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France a Marriage of Convenience | 3/31/1986 | See Source »

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