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Harvard should not ignore the policies of companies it makes money from, and Middle South Utilities is a company whose hiring policy seems far from enlightened. The University could probably wield a great deal of influence with Middle South because of both its large stock holdings and its considerable influence in the Northeast; it will continue to share the responsibility for Middle South's hiring policies until it starts trying to change them. --Nick Lemann...
...other levels of society, we are aware that violence can find vicarious expression. The maker of military strategy in his air-conditioned office is spared the reek of war, but nonetheless participates. One who is financially benefited from the production of arms need not necessarily wield them to be responsible for the resultant violence. With sex-related crimes this is also the case. The root of sexual violence is the linking of sex with a dominance-submission schema. Wherever there is sexual intercourse in the context of dominance/submission, it should rightfully be called rape. For in order to enforce dominance...
...Saudi king long resisted calls by such firebrands as Libya's Strongman Muammar Gaddafi and Iraq's President Ahmed Hassan Bakr that the Arabs wield their "oil weapon" for political gains. But after Egypt and Syria invaded Israel last month, Feisal finally agreed to cut back the flow of oil. Later, when President Nixon announced that he would ask Congress to send Israel $2.2 billion worth of arms, Feisal exploded with rage and shut...
...instrumental in averting a walkout of 13,000 railroad signalmen in 1969 and later settled a bitter, eleven-week teachers' strike in Philadelphia. In directing and coordinating the political, civil rights and community-affairs activities of the AFL-CIO'S extensive field staffs, he is expected to wield enormous influence within the labor movement. His lack of a solid power base within the AFL-CIO, however, may block his advance if Meany steps down in the near future...
ITALY. The new Italian Marxists draw their strength from a group of some 200 far-left organizations known collectively as "the extraparliamentary left," from the 14 universities (out of a total of 43) in which they wield major influence, and such cultural crannies as the Italian artistic community, which is almost totally Marxist. Still, they have not made much headway against the Italian Communist Party, which has a membership of 1,500,000 and won 27% of the vote in last year's election. The party has chosen to march to real power by proving itself effective and responsible...