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...Salient prexy Tom Firestone '86, with what can only be feigned indignation, huffs on at length about Harvard's massive investments not just in Russia, but the "EVIL EMPIRE" (excessive capitalization for rhetorical effect is the author's). "Failure to divest will prove that the Corporation is as hypocritical as the protesters to whose pressure it has already succumbed," Firestone concludes, as yet another thunderbolt of moral indignation cracks over the heads of the keepers of Harvard's billions...
...RECENT EXERCISE in one-upsmanship exhibited by the Salient editors is all too easy to ridicule. The substantive point of the majority opinion is actually quite correct--Harvard divestiture from companies doing business with the USSR would indeed most likely prove an empty, even a foolish, gesture. Where the majority falls down is where the divestiture movement always falls down: If divestiture cannot be justified on purely moral grounds, it cannot be justified at all, because its results are impossible to predict; and if it can be justified solely on moral grounds, then there is every reason to support...
...pressure on South Africa (indeed, the opposite may actually be true), whereas U.S. sanctions against the USSR have sometimes, albeit rarely, produced small positive results. The increased emigration of Jews in the late '70s under the pressure of the Jackson-Vanik amendment is only one instance described in the Salient...
...Salient has admirably shown how the South Africa divestiture movement occupies no moral high ground, and at the same time exhibits the foolishness of divestiture from any nation simply because it's impossible to predict the results...
HARVARD'S RIGHT WING has opened a new front in the effort to subvert attention from the divestment issue. In the most recent issue of the think-tank-subsidized Harvard Salient, editor Thomas Firestone '86 calls on the University's governing Corporation to divest from USSR-related firms, and in so doing to cease "bankrolling the Kremlin." But what the Salient, the Republican Club, and individual conservatives are really trying to do is confuse the issue with meaningless comparisons which create a false reductio ad absurdam...