NEWS & VIEWS
&lid WW OL VIEWS Bucking Dig Business Not surprisingly, the inability of religious groups and others of social responsibility to dent consciences through stockholder resolutions is causing...
...Needless to say, it has a very special meaning to me and would be a good addition to the other originals that I have received through the years...
...The Namibia resolution received only 5 percent of the vote (2.7 million shares to 53.2...
...The Presbyterian action made sense, particularly as stockholder resolutions aimed at sensitizing corporate policies [News & Views, 5/17/74l continued to get their lumps...
...That was the second request, actually," Trudeau informed...
...The latest defeats: two Episcopal Church presentations to the annual meeting of Phillips Petroleum...
...Well," Zonker responds, "no wonder I'd never heard of him...
...The chemist (pharmacist) thought it unlikely that the youth had that busy a ~love life ~nd phoned the Army...
...Further, the voter was instructed not to put a check mark against his or her choice, but cross it out, leaving the vote one did not wish to stand in full view...
...I f you are able to forward the original, would it be possible for you to mail it to my home address . . . . Many thanks...
...Zonker asks who he is...
...lid WW OL VIEWS Bucking Dig Business Not surprisingly, the inability of religious groups and others of social responsibility to dent consciences through stockholder resolutions is causing some to go a more direct route...
...Culhane's account did not say whether Trudeau honored Ehrlichman's request...
...New Scientist confides: "In Londonderry, a Provo tried to buy five dozen condoms...
...the campaign-contributions resolution, 7 percent (3.9 million shares to 52.9 million...
...Elastic ~tlorality If you credit New Scientist magazine, Catholic aversion to birth-control devices has caused terrorists of the Provisional Irish Republican Army to bypass "the most simple and reliable bombtiming device--the condom...
...They're much more chancy because of variances in quality, says the magazine, but ostensibly they do not offend Irish moral sensibilities, as seemingly the condoms do...
...There was no word back...
...Odds and Ends --The May 12 referendum on divorce in Italy was a test of voter understanding as well as the nation's three-year-old law...
...He wrote: "I would consider it a privilege to be able to obtain the original drawing of the attached cartoon...
...Democratic National Committee chairman Robert S. Strauss, reacting to the Nixon transcripts: "I told my wife over the third martini last night, I'm embarrassed to have our kids read this and think it's part of the life I'm in...
...The United Presbyterian Mission Council, for instance, announced recently in Chicago that the denomination will not buy or hold stock in the Duke Power Company, locked in a Kentucky labor dispute over failure to recognize the United Mine Workers of America...
...The referendum asked if the voter wanted the current law permitting divorce "abrogated" or not...
...Yours sincerely, John D. Ehrlichman.' " Ehrlichman had attached the only one of the series that ran--and on the bottom of the letter, he added with a pen: "I hear my resignation fouled up your following series--Sorry--Next time (!) let me know what you're planning and I'll try to cooperate-JE...
...Apart from moral objections," there is also the fact that "Provos are not always able to obtain condoms without arousing suspicion...
...Ehrlichman is the President's adviser on domestic affairs," Mark comments, "and as such he is responsible for the quality of life in America...
...A yes vote to abrogate was a vote against divorce, while a no vote was a vote in favor of divorce...
...We're told that "balloons are prone to split [prematurely], or during assembly, with disastrous consequences for the bomber...
...The second urged Phillips' directors "to immediately implement effective internal procedures" to prevent the corporation from making illegal political campaign contributions (as to CREEP in 1972...
...Yes, I sent it...
...I figured that anyone who was still reading the comics and had the presence to write a letter like that, three weeks after resigning and in the trouble he was, deserved it...
...What is true there has to be true here--for domestic as well as foreign investments...
...Securities now held will be divested and no more bought...
...Their point was that Ehrlichman was anonymous, yet powerful, and totally unaccountable to the American people...
...The youth was on the wanted list and was arrested before he had walked 200 yards...
...Ehrlichman resigned on April 30 and on May 18 he wrote me a letter--on White House stationery...
...Citing a study of Canada's economic links with South Africa sponsored by the Canadian YWCA, Crossman said "our study leads inevitably to the conclusion that foreign investment has not been and is not likely to become a liberalizing force...
...Quote o/ the Week...
...Said Rome's English-language Daily American on the eve of the election: the outcome may "be decided---quite literally-by mistake...
...Last April, Gary Trudeau, who draws "Doonesbury" for Universal Press Syndicate, launched a series in which two young Americans are discussing their government...
...But I was able to pull all the strips except that first one and substitute others...
...Instead, the Provos are going to toy balloons...
...Continuing Canadian investment, the study concluded, will reinforce the strength of the white economy, and increase the strength of those forces in Canada with a stake in the existing system of South African racism and repression...
...Mark mentions one John D. Ehrlichman, then relatively unknown to the comic-strip public...
...Culhane proceeds: By April 26, Trudeau began to sense that Ehrlichman was going to be caught up in the Watergate affair, "which meant that he would be catapulted into the public limelight, in which case these strips would no longer be appropriate...
...JOHN DEEDY 24 May 1974:274...
...One resolution asked Phillips to cease exploration, mining and oil production in Namibia (South-West Africa) and to withdraw "expeditiously" from the predominantly black areas ruled by segregationist South Africa...
...I called Trudeau at his studio in Connecticut...
...Semper ldem ~ John Culhane's engaging New York Times Magazine piece on the evolution of the comic strip [May 5] contained a fascinating political footnote that will bring wry smiles to Administration watchers...
...In Toronto, meanwhile, ethics professor Richard Crossman of Waterloo Lutheran Seminary was shooting another hole in the rationalizations of corporations that their influence in areas such as South Africa is a liberalizing one which will hasten the end of apartheid by emphasizing the need for more skilled labor and speeding up economic growth...
...In most terrorists' textbooks, according to New Scientist, the condom is a prescribed item in the construction of a highly incendiary firebomb...
...The preference reportedly has had its dire consequences...
Vol. 100 • May 1974 • No. 12
