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...likeable fellow named Darvis. "C," the chief of operations, has also asked Castle unadvisably to be the British liaison in a fanciful (or perhaps not so fanciful) project code-named "Uncle Remus," in which the U.S., Britain and West Germany are helping the white South African minority to retain political power with tactical nuclear weapons. To add injury to insult, Castle learns that the man who helped his wife escape from her country, a Communist agent and a close friend named Carson, has recently died in a South African prison, officially of pneumonia. (But understanding how Pretoria operates, Castle knows...
...probably be prepared to give way to Christian Lebanese soldiers (who oppose the Palestinians), or to U.N. peacekeeping forces, or to a combination of the two. But actually, the Israelis have declared de facto control over a strip of southern Lebanon, and it looks as if they intend to retain some kind of presence. As an Egyptian foreign ministry official saw it: "The Israelis probably will withdraw from south Lebanon under certain conditions, but they are establishing their right to return whenever they like. In almost colonial terms, Israel is creating a protectorate over south Lebanon...
...Shanks (ABC's Good Morning, America, public television's Great American Dream Machine) has approached at least a dozen candidates for the host job, including Washington Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee, who turned down a $5,000-a-week salary and a promise that he could retain his role at the newspaper...
WHEN THE DEBATE got hot, it became obvious how necessary it was for the convention to retain the clause. The convention did indeed consist of mainly white, conservative students who were likely to create inadvertently a form of student government insensitive to the special needs of minorities on campus. The more the establishment-oriented delegates spoke of the importance of their kind of "political" equality and the more the minority students excoriated them for their lack of compassion, the more it became evident that unless the new student assembly established special seats for representatives of minority organizations, minority needs would...
...Harvard Corporation decides on its own policy towards investments in firms operating in South Africa, it should keep in mind that the Clark subcommittee has already debunked many of the traditional myths surrounding the beneficial role of U.S. companies under apartheid. The Corporation may very well decide to retain those investments, but at least it will have to admit that profits are taking precedence over people...