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...Such actions from the French side do not correspond with its declarations about its will to maintain and develop good relations with the USSR, and the responsibility for the consequences of this action are incumbent on the French side," the Soviet spokesman said...
...throwbacks and "sophisticated" Establishment liberals, seems to have a morbid fear of any conservative movement at Harvard. When some students advocated divestment from companies that do business with the Soviet Union, the same Crimson which keeps the South Africa divestiture movement alive moved quickly to attack divestment from the USSR with haughty and vicious editorials--using the same arguments Derek Bok has used against divestiture from South Africa...
Nationalities and Demographic Processes in the USSR: Murray Feshbach, Coolidge Hall, Room 4, Harvard...
HARVARD'S RIGHT WING has opened a new front in the effort to subvert attention from the divestment issue. In the most recent issue of the think-tank-subsidized Harvard Salient, editor Thomas Firestone '86 calls on the University's governing Corporation to divest from USSR-related firms, and in so doing to cease "bankrolling the Kremlin." But what the Salient, the Republican Club, and individual conservatives are really trying to do is confuse the issue with meaningless comparisons which create a false reductio ad absurdam...
...propose, on the other hand, divestment from the USSR is nonsensical. Divestment and sanctions are the first tangible tools of pressure used by the U.S. and its citizens to remold South African society. In order to influence the Soviets, by contrast, we spend hundreds of billions in defensive and offensive weapons every year. The USSR is our stated enemy. South Africa is not, though it should be. Our foreign policies reflect this difference quite clearly, whether or not the Salient acknowledges the fact, and there is no divestment parallel that can be drawn with integrity...