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Prosecutors in the U.S. and Italy acknowledge the Mafia's continuing influence but are convinced they can reduce it. Italian authorities insist that last week's roundup, which was organized secretly and carried out with military precision, will be followed by more arrests as they question those in custody and pursue the leads laid out by Buscetta in his statement. U.S. officials are equally encouraged. "This is truly a historic occasion," said U.S. Attorney General William French Smith, "because this is the first tune that there has been an arrangement of this kind developed between two countries that...
Pentagon and State Department officials beg the point when they suggest that sturdier barriers might have forced the , terrorists to resort to aerial bombardment. Several Administration officials insist that no embassy, even in Beirut, should be turned into a fortress. Says Weinberger: "The desire is to have an embassy open to the public." Two more serious questions may be why the embassy staff had been transferred on July 31 to the building before security measures were installed, and why the Americans harbored a kind of blind faith in the safety of the new location in Christian East Beirut...
...some control over what was written or taught within their walls. Even now out freedom exists within limits. Like all Freedoms it has reciprocal obligations. We cannot expect individuals and organizations to respect our right to speak and write and choose our members as we think best if we insist on using institutional sanctions to try to impose on them those policies and opinions that we consider important...
...matter of principle, therefore, I see no reason for departing from the basic norms that define the role of the University in any society. Even apart form the special constraints on universities, I do not believe that we can know enough about the future of a distant country to insist to the point of a public boycott that American Companies will do more for Black South Africans by leaving the country than by remaining and instituting better employment and social conditions. And I find it difficult to support in good conscience a decision that would jeopardize resources given...
Before we insist on such a drastic moral standard, we should ask ourselves not only whether it is practical but whether we are willing to apply it to our own lives. How many of us have examined the purchases we make to see whether they come from companies that do business in or with Sough Africa? How many students have inquired whether their tuitions are paid in part from the dividends of companies with a South Africa subsidiary? For that matter, how many of us have stopped buying goods or using funds that can be traced to Guatemala, EI Salvador...