Word: orderers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...candidates, though not explicitly committed to broad reforms, necessarily will work to reestablish to board's influence in the vital area of finance. President Derek C. Bok and the six other members of the Corporation control virtually every aspect of the $715 million budget and $4 billion endowment. In order even to call divestment to a vote, Overseers would have to investigate and to assume increased responsibility for Harvard's purse, limiting to some extent the self-perpetuating Corporation's primary source of power. Although Bok includes Overseers in some of the financial decisions facing the University, divestment candidates would...
...relentless toll stems in part from the breakdown of traditional authority in the townships. Of about 20,000 blacks who have been arrested since the state of emergency was imposed last June, many were local leaders who headed activist community organizations and helped maintain order in the black townships. With them now in jail, new and more violent leaders have come forward. In some cases the toughest person on the street rules, exercising a savage authority that does not dispense much justice and drives many townships toward chaos. Some township residents have complained that white police authorities often remain...
...issue of who is ultimately responsible for the bloodshed is one of the most politically charged in South Africa. While many black leaders blame whites, the Botha government insists that the violence Proves that ever more crackdowns and restrictions are needed to maintain order. While that debate goes on, the appalling parade of violence is one more sign of a people in agony...
...remained neutral, but in November it became known that Washington was covertly shipping arms to Iran, though this weaponry does not appear to have played a significant role in the recent fighting. Later there were reports that Washington had provided Baghdad with certain military intelligence in order to avert the possibility of an Iraqi collapse. Finally there were allegations last week that the U.S. had given such intelligence information to both Iran and Iraq and that some of it had been deliberately distorted in an effort to prevent either side from scoring a victory...
Travelers aboard Arms Dealer Adnan Khashoggi's $40 million DC-8 enjoyed the last word in airborne luxury. But last week the jetliner, with its three bedrooms, crystal goblets and Russian sable bedspread, was seized by police at Le Bourget Airport in Paris under a court order obtained by British Industrialist Roland ("Tiny") Rowland, who seeks repayment of a $2.5 million loan...