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...Israelis struggled to disengage from southern Lebanon, they were also facing new unrest on the West Bank, where turmoil reached its worst levels in three years. In Ramallah, an Israeli settler was shot to death while shopping in the open-air market. The shooting prompted the Israeli army to impose a curfew on the town and on nearby El Bireh. To protest the death, the Jewish settlers' council decided to establish an illegal settlement on an isolated hilltop northwest of Ramallah. Their bulldozers and tractors were leveling the site when Israeli soldiers arrived. Acting on orders from Defense Minister Yitzhak...
Certainly, South Africa's white rulers, faced with parliamentary protest at home, threats of economic sanctions from abroad and a profound unrest kindled by one of the country's worst recessions in 50 years, seemed increasingly to be on the defensive. Yet, as ever, the more pressure exerted on the leadership, the deeper it dug in its heels, and the more it retreated into kragdadigheid, or a mailed-fist attitude. In an interview on ABC's Nightline program, Botha declared defiantly, "I am going to keep order in South Africa, and nobody is going to stop...
...official, "people appeared to be venting their frustrations at recent price rises in gasoline and bread." The increases followed Nimeiri's decision to end subsidies on some basic commodities, part of an economic austerity plan demanded by the International Monetary Fund. Nimeiri is expected to cite last week's unrest in asking Reagan to ease U.S. demands for economic reforms and to release $181 million in U.S. assistance...
...believe that American corporations are fighting apartheid ("Let's stay in and fight," a member of Harvard's Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility solemnly pronounced not long ago at the Law School), has stated its intention to cooperate with the South African government "in the event of civil unrest," magnanimously suggesting that its "vehicles may be taken over for Civil Defense purposes...
Regardless of the University's reaction to today's protest, we know that only persistent unrest and agitation in the student body will cause a change in Harvard's position. As Frederick Douglass said, "Power concedes nothing without a struggle," a truth attested to not only by the general history of popular movements in our nation, from the Abolitionists to the Civil Rights movement to the movement against the Vietnam War to the women's movement, but from the specific experience of students at Harvard in fighting for divestment...