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From: gam@amdahl.UUCP (gam)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Apartheid and South African Divestiture
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Date: Tue, 15-Jan-85 03:24:56 EST
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> The question I have is why wasn't this obvious to people like Kennedy before
> he had his nose rubbed in it?  (As I revel in the luxury of saying 'I told
> you so'.)  Isolating South Africa from the pressure for 'change from within'
> that US corporations represent is not going to make things get better there,
> and trying to cripple the South African economy is going to hurt the people
> at the bottom the most (as does any recession or depression), and guess who
> is at the bottom in South Africa?

I doubt Sen. Kennedy thought about it at all.  It is extremely
fashionable to get arrested at the South African embassy (all the
Congressmen are doing it) and to perform superficial
nose-thumbing (whether has any effect on apartheid, or even if
it makes it worse), so Kennedy is just doing what's popular and
looks good.

He is a politician, you know.
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Gordon A. Moffett		...!{ihnp4,hplabs,sun}!amdahl!gam