Word: statements
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That speech occurs during one of the film's superficial interview sections, which probably should have been dispensed with altogether. The only other defect of the movie is the final sequence, which at tempts in vain to turn The Last Waltz into a statement about the end of the rock era. More crudely made concert movies, such as Woodstock and Gimme Shelter, needed sociological ballast to carry them, but this movie does not. In The Last Waltz, the music does...
...light of this statement, last week's agreement could be seen as an important tactical victory for J.P. Stevens in two ways. First, Stevens has escaped the immediate danger of an injunction without giving anything in return. The company still maintains its past innocence with regard to labor practices and will probably continue indefinitely to postpone fair union elections in a tangle of litigation. Second, the Stevens officials, masters of publicity, have succeeded in confusing the opposition. Many are hailing the settlement as a significant victory for Stevens' workers. Mike Schippani, director of the New England boycott, was much closer...
...read the Corporation statement and we find ourselves in complete sympathy with it, "Robert H. Gardiner '37, Radcliffe Treasurer and the official responsible for making Radcliffe shareholder decisions, said yesterday...
...Harvard Corporation's recent policy statement on its South Africa-related investments fails to address the central ethical issues raised by the role of U.S. corporations and banks in that country. In refusing to call for the total, immediate withdrawal of U.S. firms from South Africa, Harvard ignores the manifest wishes of the South African people, Rather, it attempts to develop a case-by-case analysis, employing vague mechanisms and criteria. The Corporation argues that companies which operate in South Africa "should follow...practices that will ameliorate the effects of apartheid." [emphasis added] Obviously, President Bok, Hugh A. Calkins...
...Corporation claims that "opinions can readily be found" against withdrawal of U.S. corporations from South Africa. Yet they are able to cite only one: Percy Qoboza, a newspaper editor and former Nieman fellow, who made his statement just after being released after five months of detention. The Corporation never mentions the hundreds of African leaders and anti-apartheid organizations in South Africa that have demanded that foreign companies cease operations there, flouting the South African law that says calling for withdrawal may be considered an "act of terrorism" punishable under South African law by imprisonment or death. In the tradition...