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...ACSR piously states the obvious--that the South Africa government's policy of apartheid is abhorrent--and feigns a deep concern about American corporate support of the South African status quo. At the same time, however, it advises Harvard to do as littlehas possible to pressure companies in which the University owns stock to reform their employment policies, and less to withdraw from the country entirely...
...jargon, obfuscation and mystification, but precious little real knowledge. The Patty Hearst trial was a typical embarrassment?one battery of distinguished psychiatrists neatly explained that Hearst was ill, another insisted that she was not. To radicals, feminists and homosexuals, psychiatry is just one more villainous agent of the status quo. More than a century ago, an antebellum psychiatrist blithely explained that slaves who tried to escape from their masters were suffering from "dromomania," the runaway disease. How does the public know that 20th century psychiatry is not still retailing dromomania in more sophisticated guises...
...other hand, and it would be dishonest of me not to state this, the fact that companies are there is in implicit support of the status quo and explicit by virtue of the fact that they pay taxes. They contribute to the stability, at least in the short run, of the economy, and they contribute to the stability, at least in the short run, of the economy, and they contribute to the prestige of the existing administration by virtue of the fact that U.S. corporations are there. There are examples of companies that have modified their policies in South Africa...
...leaders who are going down the pipe." But Oil Expert Walter Levy wondered if the U.S. should instead do its best to prop up the present leaders, trying to buy time. Levy readily admitted that this approach collapsed in Iran. Call it shortsighted, he said, but supporting the status quo "may give us another five or ten years in Saudi Arabia...
...Australia. Thousands of Britons have been deported to work in German factories. A puppet government is ensconced in Westminster, but the Nazis jackboot the country as roughly as they ran occupied France. In Britain, too, there is a tough Resistance movement, as well as profiteers who will provide any quo for a quid...