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DISINVESTMENT. Possibly the most sweeping and controversial sanction is the House-passed proposal that would give all American companies 180 days after the bill became law to get rid of all their assets in South Africa. This would involve disposal of what is now left of the $1.35 billion in direct holdings by 281 U.S. companies operating in that country at the end of 1985. American firms have been withdrawing at increasing rates: seven in 1984, 39 in 1985, 15 in just the first five months of this year...
...stands at the traditional end of the Jewish spectrum and holds that both of these statements, along with all the rest of Jewish law, carry full Divine sanction in our lives must therefore view homosexual activity (although not necessarily homosexual orientation, over which one has no conscious control) as a sin. There would then be some possible distribution of opinion as to how one establishes a moral balance between the sin on the one hand and the inherent worth of the person on the other...
...week's end, however, the compromise threatened to unravel. Peres refused to sanction Moda'i's resumption of the finance post and again threatened to fire him, perhaps at a Sunday Cabinet meeting. That raised anew the specter of a government-toppling Likud walkout. But under Israel's parliamentary rules, the Likud would have to observe a 48-hour waiting period before taking action...
...after the special committee meeting five years ago, Bok chose scholars who the committee thought would be appropriate--without the official sanction of the department participation, sources in the department say. While Bok encouraged department members to write to him individually and express their opinion on the people being considered, sources say the department as a whole never voted on whether it wanted these scholars to be a part of their department...
Rambo at Harvard. In the arts at Harvard. Harvard as a cultural sanction for Rambo mercilessly outdoes anything that Stallone's Hollywood imagination could have come up with. Rambo, and whatever he/it means for America could never be bigger than he is now--projected on the Veritas screen...