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...have a policy against the advertising of ideological views in short commercials," says G. William Ryan, vice president and general manager of Hartford, Connecticut's WFSB-TV, the first station to reject Mobil's advertisements. If stations do not uphold this kind of policy, Ryan says, "the public could be swayed based upon the economic strength of certain advertisers." WDIV of Detroit, Michigan, and WJXT of Jacksonville, Florida, joined their sister Washington Post-Newsweek station in refusing...
Advocates of the withdrawal of U.S. corporations from South Africa and the divestiture of Harvard's investments in those corporations believe Sullivan's principles are worthless, a cosmetic alteration of apartheid's horrors that corporations uphold only to legitimize their business in South Africa. They believe, furthermore, that Sullivan's faith in the willingness and ability of corporations to bring about progressive change and social justice is unfounded. Noting that U.S. corporations employ less than one-tenth of 1 per cent of the black population in South Africa, Mary Nolan, associate professor of History, says the principles are a "face...
...last year, the games won't count in ECAC Division One competition. But more than that, the Beanpot is (to borrow an oft-used phrase) "a season in itself." Two quick wins at the Garden transcend any number of embarassing disasters in Ithaca, Potsdam or Hanover. Conversely, failing to uphold a reputation as number one in the Beanpot puts a damper on even the most successful of years...
...blameless. How can we uphold the holy principle of non-interference after Vietnam, the Bay of Pigs, the Dominican Republic, Iran, Chile? CIA-sponsored coups may be more subtle, but they have the same effect as actual invasions...
...impasse before the start of the debate on.sanctions. In proposing the sanctions resolution, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance reminded the council that Iran had ignored three U.N. demands to free the hostages. Said Vance: "The time has come for the world community to act firmly and collectively, to uphold international law and preserve international peace. If the international community fails to act when its law is flouted and its authority defied, we not only diminish the possibility for peace in this crisis; we belittle this institution of peace itself." After more than two weeks of delicate private talks...