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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sages of the brotherhood were summoned from retirement to refute Bonanno's version of how the commission was set up. Reluctant to cross J.B., the tottering dons were no help. In the end, Bonanno was offered a deal: retire to Tucson in return for his life. He accepted, but in a few months was back in business with his narcotics and other rackets...
...inside Bonn's Bundeshaus ?a white, flat-topped, modern building with none of the grandeur of other, older European parliaments. Under a 30-ft. backdrop of the national insignia, a black eagle with spreading wings, Chancellor Helmut Schmidt took the podium. Sturdy-looking as a Hamburg dock, chin set squarely as a chopping block, he methodically reviewed the state of his nation three decades after its occupation by the three Western Allied powers that defeated Nazi Germany in World War II. The Federal Republic, he said, had unparalleled economic development, democratic security at home and high prestige abroad, detente...
...more liberal or progressive administration instead. Where you have liberal or social-democratic governments, it can lead to a more conservative government. It can also, as we have seen rather recently in Austria, lead to a result where the people think that their government has done well in a set of economic dangers, and I guess the same is going to happen in Germany next autumn...
...University of Massachusetts (of $631,000), Ohio University (of $38,000), Michigan State (of $8.5 million), and the University of Wisconsin (of $11 million). Other colleges have chosen partial divestiture, or selling stock selectively in those companies that fail to observe the Sullivan principles, a set of guidelines established by the Rev. Leon Sullivan, a black civil rights activist and General Motors board member, which outline affirmative-action policies. Among them: Amherst ($1 million), Smith ($680,000), Columbia ($2.7 million), Boston University ($7 million), Brandeis ($350,000), Yale ($900,000), Vassar ($2.2 million), Ohio State...
...made a crucial distinction between using proxy votes to influence corporations and using consumer boycotts. Owning, Bok says, implies responsibility, whereas buying does not. Bok does not try to set specific policies on boycotts in the letter, however, and his only reference to the ad hoc committee is his belief that its report contains problems. What problems, and how Bok will address them, remains unclear...