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From: derek@uwvax.UUCP (Derek Zahn)
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Subject: Re: Apartheid
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Date: Fri, 22-Nov-85 12:14:38 EST
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> 
> I have a question about divestment that I have never had answered to
> my satisfaction. It is this: Does divestment actually put any pressure
> on the companies which do business in South Africa, and hence, on the
> South African government? The answer to me appears to be no...

I think you are missing the point.  It is symbolic, as you mentioned
later in your letter, but it is also much simpler.  The way the US works
(in part) is that if I think something is Good, then I support it.  If I
think it is Bad, then I do not.  If enough people at a university think
that the regime in SA is Bad, then that university should not support it
in any way.  In this fashion, the things that the majority of Americans
think are Good get supported and those we think are Bad do not.

derek


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