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...Corporation's decision last Monday to scrap its proposal to abandon Harvard's automatic ban on investments in banks that make loans to South Africa stemmed directly from a month of organized and loud protest. Members and supporters of the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC) rallied several times in support of the absolute ban; their efforts culminated in a rousing open meeting that helped persuade the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility to oppose unanimously the Corporation's recommendation...
...terrorist murders. Short, stern-faced, and clean-shaven since his Jan. 28 arrest in the Padua apartment in which Dozier was held prisoner, Savasta has fingered dozens of fellow brigatisti. He has also signed an open letter to Red Brigades members still at large, urging them to abandon their armed struggle. The message was underscored by a similar plea from the Brigades' reputed mastermind, Enrico Fenzi, 43, a onetime professor of Italian literature at the University of Genoa who was arrested in Milan last year. Wrote Fenzi: "In ten long bloody years, the armed struggle has demonstrated its inability...
...early test of that, on the Anglican side, will come in two months when John Paul goes to England, the first visit ever by a Pope. With news of the reunion proposals having leaked, there are already signs of resistance. Last week Archbishop of Canterbury Runcie was forced to abandon a speech on Catholic relations when 150 members of the Liverpool congregation he was addressing staged a noisy protest...
...United States must develop a longterm peaceful space program and abandon its effort to "close off" space as a frontier, the leader of a national-space fobby said last night...
...same year that Brideshead appeared, was to have been a flashback to Charles Ryder's life before he went up to Oxford and met Sebastian Flyte. But the one chapter, titled "Ryder by Gas-Light," is all he wrote. Sissons believes that the author decided to abandon the project after discussions with Peters, the late founder of the agency and one of Waugh's close friends...