Word: leon
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...George Schrecht said "sales to police and military would be nominal, very nominal. We don't make any vehicles in South Africa for any kind of specifically military operation." Schrecht said that GM was one of the 12 original companies to sign the Sullivan Principles, whose author, the Rev. Leon Sullivan, sits on GM's board. It currently has a category 1 Sullivan rating from Arthur D. Little Co., the highest possible...
...business in South Africa. During the proxy voting season and the process of intensive dialogue, through which Harvard tries to persuade ethically delinquent corporations to institute reform in South Africa, the University is guided primarily by the recommendations of the Sullivan Principles, developed by Black leader the Rev. Leon Sullivan, a director of General Motors, and the Tutu Principles, named for Black South African Bishop Desmond Tutu. Together, the Principles require the following...
...journalism (he is a former editor of the Washington Monthly) and returned in the mid-'70s to live in Everglades City and Miami Beach, his current home. His South is not the storied region of literary tradition. There is a theme-park quality to Florida's past. Ponce de Leon's fountain of youth and apocryphal pirates are turned into roadside attractions. For good- ole-boy authenticity, Rothchild heads past the subdivisions and tourist snares until the signs read BEER, AMMO and WORMS...
...policy of violence, intimidation and death has been a historic Kremlin method of quieting opposition, from the assassination of Leon Trotsky to attempts on the lives of foreign figures like Dag Hammarskjold and Anwar Sadat. Soviet ties to guerrilla groups are so well known that the Kalashnikov submachine gun has become the symbol for international terrorism. The U.S.S.R. continues training terrorists within and beyond its borders to subvert stable nations and particularly to feed upon unrest in the Third World...
...particular demand for boards are women and minority-group members. Juanita Kreps, Secretary of Commerce under President Carter, serves on ten boards, including American Telephone & Telegraph and Chrysler. Leon H. Sullivan, the pastor of Philadelphia's Zion Baptist Church, serves on three corporate boards: General Motors, Mellon Bank and the Philadelphia Saving Fund Society...