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...Nobel Peace Prize winner Bishop Desmond Tutu said, during his recent visit to Harvard, all American companies in South Africa are to some degree legitimizing apartheid. This legitimization is sometimes appallingly direct. American firms supply the computers that monitor the movement of Blacks and "coloreds" or the automobiles and petroleum that the military and police forces use to suppress the majority. But more important, the legitimization is indirect, because American corporations in South Africa cannot help but lend moral and economic support as well as credibility to the apartheid regimes simply through their physical presence...
...officials and private organizations that monitor hate groups point out that the recent violence comes at a time when the membership in fringe cults seems to be declining. The FBI says it keeps a close watch on fewer than a dozen radical-right groups. The A.D.L. estimates that, thanks to stricter state laws, the Klan has declined to about 6,500 members, although the Anti- Klan Network puts the number as high as 9,000. Says Irwin Suall, A.D.L. director of fact-finding: "These terror gangs are resorting to violence precisely because they find themselves politically and socially rejected...
...third secretary, was to monitor the disarmament negotiations then taking place in London under the auspices of the U.N. I was convinced that the Soviet Union was more interested in disarmament than the U.S. was. So was the First Secretary of the party, Nikita Khrushchev. The head of our department, Tsarapkin, told me that Khrushchev was very bitter that at the London negotiations, there had been sudden changes in the American position, and the U.S. had withdrawn what our side considered a significant concession...
...directors of Union Carbide in December found themselves coping with the biggest industrial accident in history, the gas leak in Bhopal, India, that killed at least 2,500 people. The directors, meeting in an emergency four-hour session at Manhattan's Helmsley Palace Hotel, appointed four members to monitor the situation. Said Chairman Warren Anderson: "They were calm, concerned and interested in not ducking responsibility...
Jaruzelski's trip notwithstanding, there was no shortage of drama at the trial. General Zenon Platek, 58, the suspended official of the Interior Ministry assigned to monitor church activities, made the surprising claim that the ministry was aware of a plot to assassinate Pope John Paul II during his 1983 visit to Poland and that several people with explosives were arrested. A Vatican spokesman said last week that he was not aware of such a plot, as did Warsaw's official spokesman, Jerzy Urban. Platek also claimed that just before Popieluszko's murder, the priest was to be dispatched...