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...denounce "constructive engagement" in South Africa supporting reestablishing detente with the Soviet Union to communicate with the regime perhaps encourage its reform. The dissenters claim that "American fir: is supply computers that monitor the movement of Blacks" and the technology "that the military and police force use to suppress the majority," Well, the high tech items we trade to the Soviet Union are used to stifle opposition and indeed to build the guidance systems designed to target missiles at the United States. Is dialogue equitable with the Soviets, but not the South Africans...
Miners in the Andes have long used coca leaves to suppress hunger and induce a mild euphoria to help them ignore the cold. Others use them as an anesthetic or to ward off altitude sickness. For many, coca leaves are simply a cure-all. "Hot or cold, it's a different kind of drink, good for the stomach. It reduces weight. It restores energy," proclaims an advertisement for coca tea in Peru, where the marketing of coca-based products is quite legal...
...recent visit to Harvard, all American companies in South Africa are to some degree legitimizing apartheid. This legitimization is sometimes appallingly direct. American firms supply the computers that monitor the movement of Blacks and "coloreds" or the automobiles and petroleum that the military and police forces use to suppress the majority. But more important, the legitimization is indirect, because American corporations in South Africa cannot help but lend moral and economic support as well as credibility to the apartheid regimes simply through their physical presence...
Almost immediately, nearly everyone's attention was focused on Poland and Hungary. In October, Wladyslaw Gomulka had been elected First Secretary of the Polish party's Central Committee in defiance of the Soviets. Khrushchev and other leaders felt constrained to accept Gomulka because they were loath to suppress the Poles by force. "You know," a friend in the Foreign Ministry told me, "the Poles hate us; they would fight at the drop of a hat." I knew it was true. Still, there was no danger that Poland could break away from...
...Ariel Sharon, are suing two of the United States' biggest news organizations for libel. Westmoreland, former commander of the American forces in Vietnam, is suing CBS for $120 million ever a documentary it broadcast in 1982 charging that Westmoreland had taken part in a "conspiracy" during the war "to suppress and alter critical intelligence on the enemy." Sharon, mastermind of Israel's invasion of Lebanon, is suing Time magazine for $50 million for a report on his role in the Shabra and Shatila massacres...