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...momentarily, and perhaps for the first time in the campaign, seemed flustered. She warned of the possibility of electing a militant Labor government if too many people "thought it safe to give other parties a protest vote; that is the greater danger, make no mistake." Her remark seemed to lend credence to the Alliance's belief that an increasing number of Britons are as worried at the prospect of an overwhelming Thatcher victory as they are anxious about the chaos and leftward movement within the Labor Party...
...question of foreign loans to South African borrowers has affected a number of U.S. banks. While no major bank has gone as far as the activists would like and adopted a policy eschewing all South African loans, several have gone part of the way by formally agreeing not to lend to the South African government and its public corporations. Others are de facto following the same policy Significantly, U.S. banks have not publicly singled out the government of any other foreign country in a similar fashion. These new lending policies have contributed to the fact that U.S. bank loans...
...joining the growing nationwide divestiture movement. Harvard can lend its prestige and leadership to the various efforts to affect corporate behavior, and to end South African apartheid. Not only will divestiture contribute toward corporate withdrawal, it will also influence public opinion and governmental action against apartheid here and in South Africa...
...Gunton is a shade too stilted as James, hoping perhaps that physical constriction could simulate advanced middle age. Frank Langella moves with grand assurance across Broadway's Longacre stage, ranging from impish mischief to laceration of soul. As Eleanor and her alter ego, Damon and Kerr lend their roles compelling honesty, and Roxanne Hart is a five-alarm sexual conflagration...
Administration officials were less than pleased by such an order and tabled the motion indefinitely at the latest trustees meeting in April. "To lend the prestige of the institution to one side or the other of such an issue inevitably calls into question the true openness of the university to all points of view," said Princeton President William Bowen, in an open letter shortly after the vote...