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CHOIR recommended to the Finance Committee that it sell stocks in the three companies with interests in South Africa, the Finance Committee voted to withdraw the investments...
...decide is to decide. Not to boycott Nestle products is to support Nestle. Not to rename the Engelhard Library is to endorse Engelhard's example of "public service." Not to pressure corporations to withdraw from South Africa is to support apartheid...
...profit institutions would come under intense pressure to follow Harvard's example. Second, those companies which are most sensitive to public relations would have to re-examine their South African ties, deciding either not to expand existing operations, to start cutting back operations, or, in some cases, to withdraw entirely. Thirdly, political leaders and corporate planners who try to gauge long-term trends would see Harvard's action as further evidence that the days of the white minority regime are numbered. To be sure, divestiture would not have an immediate financial effect on the companies which operate in South Africa...
...diplomat that the invasion would be "circumspect" and "will not be extended or expanded in any way." That statement seemed to confirm the initial Western interpretation of the possible Chinese objective: a swift, hit-and-run offensive, and then go home. But the Chinese were not yet ready to withdraw. At this point the Chinese shock troops, led by General Yang Teh-chih, China's deputy field commander in the Korean War, had not tangled directly with Viet Nam's crack regular army?battle-tested by victorious successive campaigns in South Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia and equipped with...
Chinese-American relations. U.S. policy was based on the notion that this country should not become involved in a conflict among far-off Communist states. Thus Washington evenhandedly urged Peking and Hanoi to withdraw their troops from both Viet Nam and Cambodia. Pursuing its honest-broker role, the U.S. also pressed for an urgent meeting of the United Nations' Security Council, hoping to rally enough votes for a resolution calling for reciprocal withdrawal...