Word: subverter
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...obviously destined to leave apartheid unaltered that one wonders whether they were not designed to do just that. But there is a far more serious consideration than the potential efficacy, or lack thereof, of the "new initiatives." The Sullivan Principles and Harvard's proposals encourage foreign nationals to subvert, and to persuade others to subvert, the domestic policies of a sovereign nation in which they live as guests. This is an intolerable violation of international business ethics, and the South African government is justifiably indignant at what it views as gratuitous interference in its internal affairs. If we indeed agree...
...Secret Service and parts of the departments of Justice and Defense. To control a population it can no longer inspire, the Kremlin relies upon security police and informers. To obtain military secrets and advanced technology it cannot develop efficiently at home, it employs espionage abroad. To subvert governments it cannot persuade through normal interaction, the U.S.S.R. has fielded a secret army--of mercenaries as well as Soviets--to advance its international goals...
...Leon Trotsky to attempts on the lives of foreign figures like Dag Hammarskjold and Anwar Sadat. Soviet ties to guerrilla groups are so well known that the Kalashnikov submachine gun has become the symbol for international terrorism. The U.S.S.R. continues training terrorists within and beyond its borders to subvert stable nations and particularly to feed upon unrest in the Third World...
...fact that several leading universities continue to subvert the system says more about the state of U.S. research funding in general than it does about their ethical standards. Simply stated, the neglect of facilities due to a lack of federal support is bringing man, research instruction to their know. Returning to the original analogy, some university administrators may feel like the jobless citizen who abandon the accepted means of securing food for his family. An appeal to Congress may in fact be a lesser evil than allowing their research facilities to erode...
...House negotiators agreed to drop the water projects, thus putting pressure on the Republicans to abandon contra funding. The Republicans finally relented; contra aid was cut off at least until next February, when a new vote can be taken if the President certifies that Nicaragua is still trying to subvert its neighbors in Central America. As for the Star Wars proposal, the Pentagon was permitted $1.4 billion in new funding for three antisatellite tests and other research...