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...weaken its ethical investment policy would be a signal t the South African government, and to transnational banks, that gilding a simple business loan to the South African government with humanitarian verbiage would be sufficient to legitimize direct subsidies to the state architects of apartheid. We should not overlook the domestic consequences of such a decision because retrenchment al Harvard will encourage a similar retreat at other universities. More ominously, over racism threatens once again to become a respectable feature of American politics and Harvard's capitulation on the South Africa issue can only feed the backlash against...
...nearly up to its 1978 level. Ford B. Ford, the Assistant Secretary of Labor in charge of MSHA, denies that Reagan's antiregulatory philosophy has demoralized inspectors and reduced the number and quality of inspections. "I have not sent out any signals to overlook things," he says. Yet Ford does admit to a new, looser approach to mine safety that concentrates more on persuasion than fines. Says Ford: "Enforcement is not the total...
...former city councilman and principal architect of Buffalo's new ordinance regulating video arcades, I read with interest your story "Games That Play People." You correctly note that communities with troublemaking youngsters had problems before the arcades opened. However, you overlook the fact that these hangouts often act as magnets, attracting young people who harass or frighten the clientele of surrounding businesses. Expert testimony before the Buffalo Common Council indicates a correlation between arcades and an increase in juvenile crime. Game centers can be well run. More frequently they become headaches for parents, neighborhood business people and community residents...
...meeting of the "Wise Old Men," brought together to consider the implications of Tet in March 1968, former U.N. ambassador Arthur Goldberg pointed out the impossibility of the army's figures. U.S. leaders knew the information behind their Vietnam strategy was riddled with inconsistencies but chose to overlook their gloomy implications. So the battle--hopeless, pointless, endless--continued...
...unemployment rate: 8.9%. Everyone who hears that percentage will know it is fraught with troublesome forebodings. Yet the modern habit of mistaking statistics for reality makes it easy to overlook the fact that the rate stands for an indigestibly large number of individuals- 9.5 million. Each point in the unemployment rate also represents, as the President explained last month, roughly $19 billion in potential but lost federal revenues, plus some $6 billion in financial assistance that the Government disburse jobless. Such statistical and elaborations usefully suggest the vast scope of unemployment and its staggering cost in both forfeited wealth...