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...extremely unlikely event that diversiture leads to general disinvestment from the country, it is the Black people who will suffer most. A lower economic growth rate and increased unemployment will follow. This weakens the trade union movement which has been effective of late in forcing change. A rapid economic growth rate destroys aparthied. Those students and academics that advocate disinvestment help entrench aparthied. They support increased Black poverty leading supposedly to violent revolution and Black suffering within the country. This they do self righteously from the lofty citadels at Harvard University...
...Reagan, the Grenada operation seemed to be turning into a political gain at home, particularly if the pullout continues at a rapid pace. With the serendipitous discovery in Grenada of large Cuban arms stockpiles and documents disclosing secret military agreements between Grenada's former leaders and Cuba and the Soviet Union, the mission, which both Reagan and many Grenadians insisted be called "a rescue" rather than "an invasion," seemed easier to justify. Some of those documents were released by the State Department last week with considerable fanfare...
...confused public mixture of exhilaration and anxiety brought on by the rapid-fire events in Lebanon and Grenada presented Reagan with one of the most critical challenges of his presidency. The Beirut tragedy had brutally underscored the risks of his ill-defined purposes in Lebanon. The armed assault in Grenada threatened to reify his image as a gunslinger. Yet-at least for the moment-he has been able to channel and perhaps even capitalize on the complex emotions aroused by both events. Despite the Administration's continued worry about the situation in Lebanon, it has been able...
Krasner always wanted to paint big pictures, ones that stretched arm and eye, surfaces that rose to the challenge of scale that was embedded in abstract expressionism. But she was able to find a way of rapid gestural drawing that did not depend on the skeining and overlay of thrown paint from edge to edge that Pollock had perfected. It was the brush that counted for her, and when she did fling or dribble liquid pigment on the surface, it only looked like a mannerism. But her sense of drawing was so ingrained that she could cover a huge surface...
...only affect part of the business of one firm. Draper Labs, that employs only 180 Cambridge residents. In the two year transition period allowed by the law. Draper Labs could easily use its expertise to find other work for its employees. Should Draper decide to leave town the current rapid expansion of high tech industry in Kendal Square would quickly reoccupy the Drager building and re-employ all available workers...