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...seen so much in terms of the degree they have helped blacks, which he admits is very limited, but to the degree they have altered how corporations view their responsibilities in South Africa. "This is the first time corporations in South Africa have publicly recognized their responsibility to react to the social situation in South Africa," he says. But "the fight will not end with these principles," he says, adding "they must not be used as a camouflage for corporate activity" or spell the end of corporate efforts to help black South Africans. "I will not allow the corporations...
COMPULSORY NON-MILITARY service is a misguided attempt to force-feed patriotism. Goals like "caring for the sick and the elderly" sound admirable on paper, but how would these programs actually work? How would nurses' unions react to this intrusion of essentially unpaid labor into their turf? How would construction workers' unions react to volunteers building "facilities for the handicapped," or for "waste treatment and recycling?" Furthermore, the Wexlers and the Woffords ignore a fundamental ideal while struggling to revive others: freedom of choice. The youth of this nation are no less moral than others, despite their lack of enthusiasm...
...would want if I were to make a run for Tehran," one military attache speculated in Kabul. "The Soviets are sitting pretty," concurred a South Asian expert. "Coming down from the north and across from Afghanistan, they would have the eastern half of Iran before the U.S. could react. There is no force that could stop them. The only impediment the Soviets would face is one wretched Iranian infantry division in Mashad...
...successful turn, get going in another direction, so that the U.S. and Iran will start negotiating." The 61-year-old diplomat, who once described his office as a mailbox for messages from antagonistic governments, was reluctant to go to Tehran in the first place. "How will the Iranians react?" he asked. "My going there depends on their attitude...
...Candidate Ted Kennedy, called the President "extraordinarily naive" in his "lack of appreciation of what the Soviets are all about." More obliquely, Senator Kennedy made a similar point. Said he: "I am deeply concerned that our foreign policy is out of control-that all we can do is react to events that constantly take us by surprise...