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...Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs represents a clear reversal of the pursuit of international human rights by past Democratic - and Republican - Administrations. In his writings, he has attacked Gerald Ford and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger for "arrogance, illusion and capriciousness" in trying to promote majority rule in Rhodesia, and questioned their "undue alarm" over nuclear proliferation. In 1978, as head of Washington's Ethics and Public Policy Center, he caught Reagan's eye with a paper titled "The Trivialization of Human Rights." In it Lefever rejected the basic premise of the division he now heads: "There...
Mobil representatatives argued that the CCRP proxy is "substantially the same" as a resolution it submitted to the corporation in 1980, which dealt with the corporation's activities in Rhodesia...
...CCRP, said Mobil's conclusion about the similarity of CCRP's 1980 and 1981 proposals is "entirely unjustified," adding that it did not contain false or misleading statements. In a letter to the SEC, Mobil stated that the CCRP resolution is not limited to South Africa and Rhodesia, and could prohibit important investments in Canada and Britain, two countries whose secrecy laws also prevent full disclosure of the use of goods and services supplied by the company...
Before deciding whether to support Black guerrillas, he examined passive resistance to determine its motive forces and utility in Rhodesia. And in The Riddle of Violence, he presents his conclusions: Rhodesia lacked the elements to make a non-violent struggle feasible. He points out what single-minded moralists overlook: nonviolence, by itself, can be a total failure. For in Nazi Germany, the Jews died, regardless of passiveor active resistance. Use of this example led Kaunda to conclude that one element necessary for a successful non-violent struggle: some morality in the ruling establishment. If the oppressors will kill anyone...
Kaunda believes that Rhodesia lacked enough virtue to allow a passive resistance struggle. White Rhodesians did not care how the world viewed them and hence did not worry about the international implications of their actions. Just as South Africa has uncaringly killed protesting schoolchildren, the Rhodesians would have destroyed any passive resistance movement. Nevertheless, the Rhodesians understood fear, and Kaunda realized that only violence could alter the unacceptable social structure. So even though he deplored violence, he supported "armed struggle in Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) because I could no longer believe that anything is preferable to the use of force...