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...last week Bok said a personal plea to the University Treasurer from a Black South African leader played a role in the Corporation's decision. According to Bok, a man identified only as Dr. Motlana, a member of the Soweto Committee of 10, urged George Putnam '49 to approve a controversial 1979 Citibank loan...
...residual pride and growing self-hatred prevent him from putting euphemisms between himself and his experience. Raw sin is like a dose of salts, evil is a flail for self-punishment, and the law smells of deals, not ideals. Even his Roman Catholic soul can cop a plea: "He had his script worked out. Confession on his deathbed. Penance. Extreme unction. Two sacraments for the price of one. A perfect act of contrition. Not to mention a perfect way to hedge his bet in case he had backed the wrong horse...
South Carolina's Democratic Senator Ernest Hollings outlined his comprehensive alternative proposals in a letter to the President last week. Hollings later told a news conference: "He ought to understand that this is not a poker game with cards played close to the vest." The implied plea, that Reagan should end the uncertainty by showing all his cards now, ignores an even more worrisome possibility: all his cards may already be on the table...
...arrest in the Padua apartment in which Dozier was held prisoner, Savasta has fingered dozens of fellow brigatisti. He has also signed an open letter to Red Brigades members still at large, urging them to abandon their armed struggle. The message was underscored by a similar plea from the Brigades' reputed mastermind, Enrico Fenzi, 43, a onetime professor of Italian literature at the University of Genoa who was arrested in Milan last year. Wrote Fenzi: "In ten long bloody years, the armed struggle has demonstrated its inability to construct any political program whatever. The Red Brigades chapter is tragically...
...responsibility to support and to strengthen this international institution was eloquently stated by President Roosevelt in his last speech before a joint session of Congress on March 1 1945. Roosevelt was making a plea of support for the United Nations Conference which was soon to convene in San Francisco: "No plan is perfect. Whatever is adopted at San Francisco will doubtless have to be amended time and again over the years, just as our own Constitution has been. No one can say exactly how long any plan will last. Peace can endure only so long as humanity really insists upon...