Word: signed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There was no sign last week that Rhodesia's black-ruled neighbors would react favorably to such a call. Like many other African leaders, Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda denounced the election; he also hinted that if South Africa entered into a military alliance with the new Salisbury government, he would be obliged to seek new Soviet and Chinese arms in an effort to stop Rhodesian attacks on the guerrilla camps in his country...
...idea that individuals have rights that government should not infringe was an article of faith with "freeborn Englishmen" as far back as 1215, when a group of barons sat King John down to sign the Magna Carta. So there was considerable irony in the fact that an international court, born out of the Holocaust to prevent the rise of another Nazi Germany, solemnly declared last week that Great Britain had failed a basic test of human rights. Free expression, ruled the 20-judge European Court of Human Rights, had been denied by a longstanding English law that stifled the press...
...Harvard is not afraid to associate with the racist leaders of South Africa." Barry asked the sign-carrying crowd, "why are they afraid of a few young followers of the Rev. Moon?" Barry, who is a close friend of Moon, said CARP is "just trying to rent a hall that even Communists can rent...
...BUSINESS FACULTY is unlikely to sit down to review its curriculum again in the near future. This leaves Bok's suggestions in limbo, making his report more a spur to discussion than a set of concrete reform proposals. Even so, Business School administrators should take the report as a sign that others within and without the University are concerned about the strength of the school's commitment to ethics. Witness the flurry of media attention earlier this year over a course in "Competitive Decision-Making" taught by Howard Raiffa, Ramsay Professor of Managerial Economics, which drew fire from the Wall...
...said he would not sign the Faculty letter because he is uncertain that corporate withdrawal from South Africa would benefit blacks in that country...