Word: nationalist
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...letter centers upon the distinction between appropriate and inappropriate methods of influencing the behavior of corporations and, ultimately, the Nationalist government itself. Fully aware of the evils of apartheid, the University has undertaken a number of steps regarding its investments: voting on shareholder resolutions for corporate withdrawal, urging firms to abide by the Sullivan Principles (progressive rules of conduct for American firms operating in South Africa), and engaging "in intensive dialogue with corporations to persuade them to improve the quality of life outside the workplace." All of these, according to Bok, are appropriate actions by the University, fully consistent with...
Such skepticism was voiced most angrily last week by Taiwan. The Chinese continue to hope that the breakaway Nationalists will one day follow Hong Kong's example and rejoin the mainland. At present that seems highly unlikely. In a vituperative denunciation of the agreement, Nationalist China's Premier Yu Kuohwa offered sanctuary to the people of Hong Kong, who, he said, were being forced "into a slave system of Communist totalitarianism...
...largest I.R.A. shipment to be intercepted since 1973. As with an estimated 80% of the terrorists' arms, the trawler's deadly cargo was apparently financed and supplied by nationalist sympathizers in the U.S. Irish authorities reportedly acted on a tip from U.S. intelligence sources...
...nonwhite workers? At bottom, this questions raises the difficult issue of how major social change can come about in a country like South Africa. Those who support corporate activity in South Africa argue that economic development will eventually undermine apartheid as the needs of the economy force the Nationalist regime to give more education, economic opportunity, and ultimately power to nonwhites. Proponents of divestiture believe that real change will never occur by evolutionary means, whereas the withdrawal of American companies could produce widespread unemployment and economic widespread unemployment and economic distress that would either force the government to institute reforms...
This too is a highly questionable argument. Presumably, Harvard could also demonstrate its convictions by giving funds to the African National Congress or some other opposition group. Such a grant would certainly be a dramatic gesture and might well do more than divestment to further the struggle against the Nationalist regime. And yet, despite our revulsion toward apatheid, the fact remains that Harvard's resources were entrusted to us for academic purposes and not as a means of demonstrating our opposition to apartheid or to other manifest injustices and evils around the world. This is one reason why we have...