Word: undercutting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pretoria's goal is to undercut the South West African People's Organization (SWAPO)-which has waged a guerrilla war against South Africa for the past twelve years-by staging elections in December, well before the U.N. force could be in place. Since SWAPO refuses to participate in such an election, the biracial Democratic Turnalle Alliance, which South Africa created and still dominates, would be virtually assured of victory. Third World nations regard such a voting arrangement as worthless-a view increasingly shared in the West. "You don't try to rig an election or rush...
...conflicting parties. If Hiatt's claims that his administration has been fair and straight are true, then he has nothing to fear from such a committee. Members of the senior faculty have backed the idea, and certainly, it can only help a situation which now dangerously threatens to undercut the integrity and financial base of America's oldest school of public health...
...that, they are deeply resented. Some labor unions have asked for tougher enforcement measures against them, arguing that they take jobs away from legal residents and undercut wage rates. In Texas, local school boards have refused to provide free public schooling to children who cannot prove permanent legal immigrant status for themselves or their parents. Even fellow Hispanics often turn undocumented workers over to the INS. Says Jos? Ramiriz of the Chicane Training Center in Houston: "There are mixed feelings about the undocumented in the Mexican-American community. The feeling is that they're receiving services that should be going...
...State Department study, U.S. multinationals in 1970 were producing $200 billion worth of goods abroad. That was nearly five times greater than total U.S. exports and, if anything, the gap has widened. The large American multinationals, such as GM, Ford, ITT, Kodak and IBM, understandably do not wish to undercut their foreign operations by increasing exports of finished products from the U.S. To a degree, multinationals benefit the U.S. because much of their profit is returned home in the form of retained earnings ($20 billion in 1977). Yet in a world that still reckons trade on a nation-to-nation...
...honest brokers between SWAPO and Pretoria stand to gain the most by securing a peaceful transition to independence. These countries' corporations mine and market the vast stores of precious minerals in Namibia. And for 12 years, these countries, led by the U.S., did the most to undercut U.N. efforts to loosen South Africa's stranglehold over Namibia...