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...point about using secrecy to obtain the professor truthful account offered up by Lewis as a partial defense of the College's current practice, is absurd on its face. An investigative body must operate on the assumption that it has the power to get its suspects to tell the truth. To act otherwise is to make every case a plea bargain, in which Harvard makes a major concession at the start of a case, merely in return for the professor's decision to tell the truth. The College should act with the assumption that its faculty members...
...When you get a month or two behind," Bill recalls with a grimace, "some of the charge people begin to say, 'We don't want any partial payments. We want the whole thing-now!' Naturally, I could never meet that commitment...
...other ending that Britain now has in mind is a gradual invasion. As one senior British diplomat told TIME Correspondent Frank Melville, "The strategy is not a simple choice between war and peace. What the government intends is a stage-by-stage repossession, with partial landings on the West and then the East island, but with the door being left open for continuing diplomatic efforts. This means pushing the Argentines to the conference table on a realistic basis by exerting greater and greater military pressure until their nerve fails them...
...stocks and bonds of companies which continue to do large scale business in South Africa. Seven colleges and universities have already completely divested But despite the four year effort of a devoted group of activists at Harvard (Southern Africa Solidarity Committee) only recently did the University take a partial step selling its debt investments in Citicorp a major lender to South Africa...
...does this comfortable status shape Argentina's own foreign policy? The Falkland invasion offers some partial answers. Apparently, along with the shadowy forces of the communist monolith, the British presence in the South Atlantic--a menacing 1800 inhabitants of a string of islands not worth the attention of even most trivia buffs--presents a dangerous threat to Argentina' influence in the Southern Hemisphere, a perfect opportunity for muscle flexing. Pretending to be victims of imperialism, the Argentine government ordered a reckless violation of international law, insulting Britain and all her allies. Argentine Foreign Minister Nicanor Costa Mendez managed somehow...