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...Thatcher's view, Britain must make the islands economically viable and militarily secure after the war. Her formula for doing that calls for multinational invest ments and an international peace-keeping force that would include the U.S. Thatcher believes that the presence of even a small force of U.S. troops on the islands would persuade the Argentines not to launch any further assaults. As she pointedly remarked last week, "When the Americans asked us to join them in a multinational force in the Sinai, I said yes, be cause it helped peace in that area...
...decided, Britain would want the security of the Falklands to be guaranteed by a number of countries in the Southern Hemisphere plus the U.S. Britain would also be faced with the cost of repairing the war damages, but would want to attract as many nations as possible to invest in developing the islands. Says Foreign Secretary Pym: "The best future for the islanders will be in rebuilding. If there is peace, stability and friendship in the whole region, people are more prosperous and their economic future is brighter." Pym also feels that the Falklands and Argentina must work out good...
...make one. Eventually, Brian and I walked away. The whole 'movie game' is just one more useless experience." He wishes the studios would put some of their profits into development of new talent: "If each studio would take $1 million profit per big movie and invest it in film schools and writing programs, we'd have the industry that David O. Selznick and Irving Thalberg created." The director has given $500,000 to the U.S.C. film program. "We must become like Walter Huston in Treasure of Sierra Madre-we must put the mountain back...
...ACSR, though, deserves credit for essentially expanding its own role beyond merely advising the Corporation on shareholder resolutions; it should continue to play an active role in focusing attention on the University's responsibility to invest ethically...
...tiny island nation of Dominica (pop. 80,000) also has great expectations. Last November investors from the U.S. and Dominica opened a $400,000 sports-clothing plant in a new industrial complex. Says Prime Minister Eugenia Charles: "The Reagan initiative might just turn the tide as to whether people invest here or not." But so far it looks as if those and other high hopes about Reagan's Caribbean proposals are unlikely to be fulfilled. -By John Greenwald. Reported by Gisela Bolte/Washington and Bruce van Voorst/New York