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...motivation are the most able to help their poverty-stricken brethren. Ireland is the classic case where the able and strong abandoned a country, leaving the weak and infirm behind. True, Ireland is better off now than during the potato famines, but to attribute this to migration requires ridiculously long-run analysis. Similarly Galbraith plays down the racial hatred migrants have inspired and the dreadful standard of living--hardly better than what they left--that they are often forced to accept. Finally, while Galbraith says countries like Germany and Switzerland have been able to expand their economies without putting their...
Secondly, it removes us from the dialogue and substantially diminishes our ability to support responsible efforts by church groups, the Rev. Sullivan, and others to make the companies change their policies. It produces no noticeably long-run economic effect on the companies so that from the point of view of direct economic leverage, the only leverage is the one that comes back to us. I share, and this is a personal view. I share the reservations about the use of economic leverage that were expressed in President Bok's recent open letter to the Harvard community...
Harvard will, I hope, continue to support the efforts of the Rev. Leon Sullivan, whom I think has the best long-run chance of producing substantial changes in companies' operations. He is, I stated earlier, engaged in a monitoring effort which I would very much like to see us support. In the meantime, in the next six weeks we will face 40 resolutions directed at 22 companies. Some of these resolutions are, many of them, in fact, concern the South Africa matter. I have had a number of people express the concern to me that the process of collecting information...
...questions about these or other matters that affect our policy on South Africa. I do want to convey to you, though it is not always obvious, that there is a group of 12 people who have spent the better part of this year trying, in the name of the long-run objective of altering companies' behavior in South Africa, who have spent this time learning about this behavior, trying to formulate policy on it. I would like to see us give this policy some continued opportunities to succeed. I think, if I had more time, I could cite evidence...
...problems that land on a President's desk are often so pressing and immediate-rioting in Iran or a threat from Moscow-that he is in danger of losing his perspective on the long-run effects of his policy. In an effort to remedy that, Jimmy Carter asked National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski to outline the global problems and prospects for the coming year, and late in December Brzezinski provided him with a thick black dossier. Brzezinski declines to discuss the specifics of that report, of course, saying only that it is concerned with "trying to create a framework...