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...think it is more likely that the disclaimers reflect the traditional attitude of our diplomats that commercial activities abroad of American-owned corporations are simply none of their business. Such an attitude betrays a failure to understand that multinational corporations often are crucial actors in the international political sphere, whose activities may determine and define U.S. national interests to a degree comparable to the actions of our own government...
...exclude women from the public sphere and confine them to domesticity has been so clearly in the interests of the male makers and legitimators of reality that they have not needed to think, much less to talk, about it. But even if it were true (which it is not) that women's achievements have been domestic, while men's were public, it is a social decision to value the one and devalue the other...
...bevy of ducks and a beach ball were more suited for Saturday's weather than the Harvard and Cornell booters and the black and white sphere they played with...
...added, "wants no special position or sphere of influence in Africa." American interests would be "best served by an Africa seeking its own destiny free of outside intervention." Clearly referring to the Russians, who imported 13,000 Cuban troops into Angola late last year to put a client in power in the former Portuguese colony, Kissinger added: "The rivalry and interference of non-African powers would make a mockery of Africa's hard-won struggle for independence from foreign domination. It will inevitably be resisted...
...sense of impermanency to any stage of University Hall's organization--Arthurs, for example, now holds her third title in four years, and even now she is only an acting dean. Francis M. Pipkin, associate dean of the Faculty for the Colleges--Fox's counterpart in the academic sphere--leaves UHall for the Physics Department in June, and Rosovsky says he plans to spend a fair amount of time this fall seeking a replacement for Pipkin and for Peter S. McKinney, now acting dean of the graduate school. With that kind of presence in the wings, Fox is quite likely...