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This spring it has once again become difficult for the University to stand fast on the divestiture issue. Hoping to preempt growing student dissatisfaction by showing that their policy of intensive dialogue works, the Corporation divested from a company that was unwilling to prove that its operations in South Africa are ethical. Later President Bok endorsed national legislation calling for economic sanctions toward South Africa--the day before more than 5000 students gathered in Harvard Yard to demonstrate against the University's investments in companies that do business in South Africa...
...balance of Soviet forces against British French forces is to maintain outside the Soviet-American balance a separate Soviet arsenal of "European" nuclear missiles and bombers. The Soviets have aimed these "European" weapons both militarily and politically at West Germany. This special category of Soviet INF weapons seeks to preempt the "worst case scenario" for Soviet military planners the reunification of Germany as a result of political upheavals in East Germany or the adjoining East European Communist states...
...nuclear issue: The danger here again is that Democratic rhetoric could permit Reagan to preempt the center. If the Democratic nominee makes a nuclear freeze the centerpiece of his candidacy--as Sen. Alan Cranston (D-Calif.) has begun to do and as much of the Democratic left is likely to press for--he risks having his chief issue defused by a Reagan initiative. The 1972 analogy is enlightening: George McGovern, the Democrats' "peace" candidate, found his thunder stolen by Richard Nixon's late-October announcement that "Peace is at hand...
...Brookings Institution, believes that the Soviets would consider trying to get the drop on the U.S. with nuclear weapons only if they were convinced that the U.S. was about to reach for its own holster: "If they really concluded that the U.S. had decided to attack them, they would preempt. This would be in a situation of crisis and high alert...
...party leader. The college will be dominated by the left-wing local parties and powerful unions. Running under the new rules, Healey might have been beaten by the divisive champion of the party's radical left, M.P. Tony Benn. As it is, the popular Foot is expected to preempt House challenge and sail through vigor the next leadership election virtually unopposed. If he becomes Prime Minister any time soon, the relationship between Washington and London would be strained. A much greater philosophical contrast than that between Foot and U.S. President-elect Ronald Reagan cannot readily be imagined...