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...different company, GM is already vastly different from what it was in the free-spending days of Stempel's predecessor, Roger Smith. Money seemed to be no object for Smith, who spent $5 billion to acquire Hughes Aircraft, $3 billion to build the experimental Saturn division and $700 million to buy out his boardroom rival H. Ross Perot...
...same time, I thought I should also point out the negatives. Those three republics have no right to declare the Soviet Union nonexistent. What do they mean, there's no such country as the U.S.S.R., not even as an object of international law? If there are no laws governing the union as a whole, then who controls the army? The borders of our state have also been established by union law. The same with our territorial waters and airspace, not to mention our relations with foreign countries...
Furthermore, those who object to Zionism as the philosophy of a Jewish homeland must also reject any form of nationalism and religion--including their own--as equally illegitimate...
...Turkey, Egypt, Israel, Greece, Italy and other nations claim state ownership of all artifacts underground, but cannot afford what they promise to pay for any finds. Says Josephson: "An Egyptian farmer will not report an archaeological find for fear his fields will be confiscated. So he either throws the object away or sells it to a cousin in Cairo." Though a peasant who finds an artifact makes a small fraction of its retail value -- one contraband Cambodian Buddha head on sale in Hong Kong recently carried a $37,000 price tag -- it is better than nothing...
...have to object to the diatribe against Peninsula that has appeared over the past few days in The Crimson. Insufficient attention was paid to differences in arguments and viewpoint. Speaking only for my article, "What About Love?," I know that my arguments were, when not ignored, grossly distorted and misrepresented...