Word: rand
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Ellsberg is also concerned with the antinuclear movement and Central America. The onetime Rand Corp. analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers, Ellsberg, 54, lives in Kensington, Calif., near Berkeley. He was a founder of the Mobilization for Survival, a coalition of antinuke groups, and in 1978 joined a sit-in to blockade the Rocky Flats nuclear installation in Colorado. Ellsberg is a traveling college lecturer, telling audiences that the undeclared war syndrome is recurring. "The time for a new Viet Nam seems certainly at hand," he says. "In Central America we are at about the 1961 stage of involvement...
...impoverished black settlement of about 50,000, a mob descended upon the home of a black town councilor, hacked the man, his two sons and two employees to death, torched the house, then dragged the charred corpses into the open, where youngsters chanted around them. "Enough!" pleaded Johannesburg's Rand Daily Mail. "This country is tearing itself apart. We are writing our history in blood...
Moreover, in 1982 these companies spent 8 million rand on housing, welfare and recreation programs and 11 million rand on education programs for non-whites not employed by the companies. Nearly 120 American companies raised $6 million to build South Africa's only Black private school, Peace school in addition, these companies continue to finance the running of the school, paying the student's tuition...
...final way in which American companies are able to further change in South Africa is by their influence on South African firms. A spokesman for the South African company Barlow-Rand attributed his companies policy of desegregated work places to the impetus provided by the Sullivan Code. Union-Carbide persuaded a South African partner to back down on its refusal to recognize a Black union until the union joined an Industrial Council. In addition, the educational and social programs undertaken by American firms have inspired similar efforts on the part of South African companies who fear losing the competive edge...
Quite possibly part of the Politburo's purpose in choosing Gorbachev is to put a damper on such talk. According to Arnold Horelick, the director of the Rand Corp./UCLA Center for the Study of Soviet International Behavior, "Gorbachev is being picked as an embodiment of characteristics that the Soviets want to be associated with--dynamism, optimism, confidence...