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...hear what the Corporation decides before resuming a discussion of the South Africa question. But Jonathan Cedarbaum '83, this year's undergraduate member, says that Calkins's statement merely shows how wide the gap is "between the Corporation's rhetoric and both its actual concern and practice" for the plight of Black South Africans. His term on the ACSR revealed to him, he says, that issues of shareholder responsibility are "merely inconveniences that have to be taken care of" for the Corporation, "rather than pressing matters that one should feel obliged to act on." Cedarbaum is not optimistic that...
Have the spiritual leaders of the worldwide Protestant community so lost their perspective that they are willing to trade their integrity for the approbation of a few Soviet lackeys? How can they look at the plight of the millions of Soviet citizens who have been imprisoned or denied freedom of worship and dare to compare that nation's policies favorably with ours? We may not be perfect, but as a people we have a great respect for justice and integrity...
...hear what the Corporation decides before resuming a discussion of the South Africa question. But Jonathan Cedarbaum '83, this year's undergraduate member, says that Calkins's statement merely shows how wide the gap is "between the Corporation's rhetoric and both its actual concern and practice" for the plight of Black South Africans. His term on the ACSR revealed to him, he says, that issues of shareholder responsibility are "merely inconveniences that have to be taken care of" for the Corporation, "rather than pressing matters that one should feel obliged to act on." Cedarbaum is not optimistic that...
...authorities agree on one point: a child cannot be helped unless his or her plight is reported. With considerable unanimity, police and social workers criticize doctors, particularly in private hospitals, for mending broken bones and cigarette burns on young bodies without taking action to prevent "an accident" from happening again. "In most cases the stories given by parents are not consistent with the injury," says Dr. Annette Picker, a pediatrician at Children's Hospital National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., which handles some 600 cases of child abuse a year, more than half of them sexual. (Children two years...
...very strict and the guards were handpicked. The authorities already had the intention of releasing me, and their objective was to remove all the aftereffects of the ill-treatment I had been subjected to. Castro had told several ambassadors and statesmen who had taken an interest in my plight that until I could walk I would not leave the country. The colonels in the political police often told me that the only prisoner who could not leave Cuba in a wheelchair was me. Other detainees left the country in just such a condition, and two of them, still invalids...