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...more recent action down at City Hall this spring, a first-term city councilor has offered a series of scandalous proposals which would weaken, if not destroy, rent control and Cambridge's method of providing low-cost housing to its neediest citizens. Throughout the whole legislative debate, however, Harvard's large legislative lobbying staff was conspicuously quiet on the matter--and no wonder, given the University's poor track record on rent control...
...obviously the reverse is not necessarily true: while repression can strengthen Communism, removing repression does not automatically weaken Communism or other totalitarian forces. The Kennedy Administration decided that the Diem regime in Viet Nam no longer deserved U.S. support, among other reasons because its oppressiveness made it unpopular and therefore ineffectual. But the governments we put in place after we eliminated Diem were not necessarily any better in the long run. The Carter Administration made a similar decision about Somoza in Nicaragua, and yet again the Sandinistas are hardly an improvement, as most Nicaraguans know only too well today...
Nonetheless, the daylong protest marked a triumphant milestone in the history of the country's organized black labor movement. Black unions have been legal in South Africa only since 1979. Marshaling the organizational skills needed to achieve a nationwide strike was their greatest challenge yet. Aware that failure would weaken the unions' image as a potent force in the debate over the future role of blacks in the country, the leaders took pains to assure a strong turnout...
...said the oversupply of professionals has led to New England's economic resurrection. However, he warned that the region's revival could weaken if more attention is not paid to the surplus...
...effective use of force may weaken Khadafy, but we should not rely on the symbolic show of strength to subdue...