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Allied officials leaked word that unless the measure was rescinded, their countries might retaliate by canceling planned high-level visits to East Germany. U.S. diplomats in Bonn denied reports that the responses under consideration could include, as a last resort, a break in relations. But, warned one U.S. diplomat, "talk of it might just sober up the East German government...
Hmmmm. Does this pattern sound familiar? It's merely the road to academic success followed by the wise liberal arts student at Harvard. No need to resort to anything so crude as sleeping with your section leader or depositing large checks in a numbered account at Bay Banks. Sidle up to your most prominents professors and tell them what they want to hear. If you have any wits at all, hitching your wagon to enough academic engines can lead to a summer job, fellowships, and best of all, hot reccomendations for the grad school or job of your choice...
...also in some sense perhaps mutually exlusive. A purely moral motivation for divestment should not be sullied by resort to its likely practical benefit. If the moral case for divestment is strong enough, opponents of apartheid should not have to make economic arguments for it as well...
...crush is growing increasingly intense as Americans drop plans to go to Europe. At the Fontainebleau Hilton Resort in Miami Beach last week, Kenji Seki, a Los Angeles restaurant manager, was enjoying the sun and surf. Three weeks ago, he canceled a trip to Monte Carlo because he was wary of traveling abroad. When a group of women from Pasadena, Calif., arrived at the Santa Fe Opera Theater last week, a member of the group explained that "we're supposed to be in Madrid, but we came here instead...
...arresting 500 and injuring a dozen with rubber bullets. Security forces conducted sweeps in slum areas of the city, arresting a total of 11,000 men, who were hauled off to soccer fields and marked for police reference with indelible ink. If the unrest continues, Pinochet is likely to resort to a still tougher response: a state of siege of the kind that finally quelled similar unrest...