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Total divestment is unwise, first of all, because it is ineffective. The aim of divestment is to force American companies to leave South Africa in the hope that their departure will administer a shock to the economy that will force the Botha regime to leave office or dismantle apartheid. This strategy breaks down for several reasons. To begin with, in the unlikely event that American firms did withdraw as a result of divestment, the result is not likely to cause apartheid to disappear. Instead, the departure of these firms might simply cause black unemployment without forcing the Afrikaner regime...
...insurance shock is forcing communities to curb services and boost taxes. Northfield (Ill.) Township High School District 225 canceled its summer basketball and baseball programs this year for lack of coverage. In Blue Island (pop. 22,000), a Chicago suburb, citizens held a noisy meeting last month to debate a 30% tax increase. Reason: the city's insurance premiums had jumped from $175,000 to $435,000 in one year. In July the Southern California Rapid Transit District came within nine hours of idling its 2,500 buses for lack of insurance. The annual premium rose from...
...contrast, the sanatoriums offer a room and meals for $2 a day. Anyone planning to take advantage of time away from the family for late rising and high living is due for a shock. The sanatoriums impose a strict regime, beginning with 7 a.m. reveille and lights-out at 11, after the credits have finished rolling on the evening movie. A medical checkup is supplied free, and patients' medical data are fed into a computer for analysis...
Radio Moscow, compared with 47% for the BBC and 26% for the Voice of America. Furthermore, to be heard is not necessarily to be believed. Soviet propaganda is greeted around the world with large doses of skepticism, even in the U.S.S.R. Soviet visitors to the U.S. sometimes express shock to see people out of work. Having read so much about rampant U.S. unemployment in the Soviet press, they assumed the opposite--that there was very little...
Once again, the country was in shock over an assassination. In an emotional message to the nation, Gandhi, whose mother, former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, was gunned down by two Sikh bodyguards last October, called Longowal's slaying "a tragedy not just for Punjab but for the whole country. A man of peace has fallen to the bullets of assassins," he said. The next day Longowal was cremated in his native village with full state honors. The funeral procession included mourners from every faith and high government officials. Conspicuously absent were members of the radical faction of the Akali...