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Last year, at an open hearing in front of the University's Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility, a Harvard student spoke about AMAX's Namibian operations and asked that Harvard, following international law, sponsor an AMAX shareholder resolution requiring the company to withdraw from Namibia. In the great tradition of Harvard's free market of ideas, the committee politely thanked him for the suggestion, but seems never to have given it a moment's consideration...
Their job is to reoccupy and defend a former French outpost called Muc Wa, which they do successfully until there is an inexplicable change in strategy and they are forced to withdraw into ambush and massacre. The picture is good at catching the absurdity and futility of the operation, but in the long siege-and-retreat sequence, Director Post's failure to rise above simple realism becomes a problem. The scenes here should be spookier and more suspenseful, imparting a developing sense of the madness of isolation in an alien land where the native enemy has all the advantages...
...time has come for the aging dictator to step down and allow the Nicaraguan people to determine their own fate. The time has come for the U.S. to withdraw all forms of support to a government that rules through force and terror...
Carter, Begin and Sadat reached an agreement on the basic principles for a peace settlement late Sunday night. The framework includes provisions for a five-year transition period in which Israel would withdraw from the West Bank and Gaza...
Walzer also said that he thinks the majority of the Knesset, though not necessarily a majority of Begin's party, will vote to withdraw the Israeli settlements in the Sinai...