Word: washings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...declared Reagan Chief of Staff James Baker shortly after the debate ended. "If it is written that it was a wash, we still win. The age issue is gone, g-o-n-e!" Asked if the feeling in his camp was better than after the Louisville clash, Baker replied happily, "You're damn right...
Privately, the guerrillas concede that the success of El Salvador's presidential balloting last March came as a heavy blow to them. As U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador Thomas Pickering puts it, "Since the presidential election, the guerrillas have really seen the political sand wash out from under them." Confidence in Duarte's political legitimacy, in short, provided the most important underpinning for his peace offer...
...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...