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...communism have been reinforced, and the government has announced that material on the Soviet action will be added to anti-Communist instructional materials--materials intended to teach how Koreans themselves have suffered because of communism. This rallying to the nation has pushed other political domestic questions aside, to the short-term benefit of the Chun government...
...jobs: There are both long-and short-term effects here. In the long run, more jobs are created per dollar spent by any activity other than high-tech defense work. This type of conversion to non-defense work is an integral part of the legislation, which orders the preparation of a plan to convert effected facilities by the October 1, 1985 deadline. Yet Draper may decide to move even with such help. What about jobs then...
...there is no way you can avenge such a thing. It is very difficult to find anything you can do that matches the enormity of what they have done . . . you find that there is a great limit on what you can do. You can do some things for short-term public relations advantage and show your own feelings about this. But what you have to look for is what you can do, first of all, to get restitution for the families of the victims, and what you can do to see that this never happens again...
ARGENTINA. The costly Falkland war has helped to weaken Argentina's ability to service its $40 billion of foreign debt. The country will have to borrow $1.5 billion this year just to help pay off some $4.5 billion in interest. Banks that extended the country $6.6 billion in short-term credits before last year's war now fear that Buenos Aires will seek to stretch out those loans...
...Sullivan of long-term risks to their investment it change does not come, they also believe that painful short-term costs may ensue from antagonizing Pretoria. In addition, because nearly all institutional investors appear to be satisfied with rather straightforward policy guidelines on the South Africa issue-including adherence to the Sullivan Principles, and refusal to make loans directly to the South Africa government-it is unlikely that they would become a major source of pressure on companies to move toward this new position in the debate...