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...hand Bok argues that it would be irresponsible for Harvard to wash its hands and "simply turn away from the injustices of South Africa." On the other hand he argues that it is not the proper role of the university to intervene or participate in any way in the politics of the outside world. The only consistency in Bok's many arguments is that they all come out against divestment. Why? Bok defends the university's assets as "resources essential to the accomplishment of a vital public mission." What could that mission be that it does not include the eradication...
...liberal divestment schemers have contrived a scenario in which Harvard is key. It goes something like this: the ACSR advises the Corporation to divest: the Corporation, feeling morally compelled to wash its hands of apartheid blood, does so; other universities, recognizing Harvard's supreme importance in the grand scheme of capitalism, follow suit, as do several state and local government; then, of course, the U.S. itself divests; the businesses in South Africa crumble, breaking the chains binding South African workers, and apartheid is buried in the flames of revolution...
...Larson Yakima, Wash...
After two hours or so of talk, the 75-year-old visitor will be escorted through the Rose Garden to the Family Dining Room. There will be some chilled Stolichnaya vodka from Mother Russia to wash down Chesapeake blue crabs out of Chef Henry Haller's imaginative kitchen. Old Grom can demolish succulent rolled veal, served on Lyndon Johnson's china and set off with a California wine. Finally, Gromyko will be escorted to the diplomatic doorway in the back of the White House for his exit, far from probing cameras and obstreperous reporters. It is a vantage...
...past 25 years, Boeing of Seattle, Wash., and McDonnell Douglas of St. Louis, Mo., have had a virtual monopoly on sales of passenger jets to U.S. airlines. Last week the American companies sustained a damaging air raid. Airbus Industrie, the European consortium of French, British, West German and Spanish plane builders, announced a $1 billion deal to deliver 28 of its new jets to Pan Am, a longtime Boeing customer. The European aviation industry exulted over the agreement, dubbing it the contract of the century...