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Against the recommendation of its advisory committee, the Harvard Corporation voted yesterday to abstain on a shareholder resolution that would force Mobil Oil Corporation's two South African subsidiaries to ensure that no Mobil products are supplied to Rhodesia...
...HARVARD CORPORATION must be condemned for the socially irresponsible vote it will cast today on a shareholder resolution at the annual stockholders meeting of the General Electric Corporation. Harvard will vote to abstain on a resolution calling on General Electric--one of the most socially retrograde U.S. corporations in South Africa--to withdraw its operations from that country. While all U.S. investment in South Africa is undesirable, insofar as it serves as an economic prop for the morally abhorrent apartheid regime and continues a U.S. foreign policy in South Africa committed to American business rather than to the basic rights...
...student-faculty-alumni group voted in favor of forcing General Electric to withdraw totally from South Africa-one ACSR member this week cited the committee's belief that G.E. has shown a "complete lack of interest in the fate of the black South African worker"-Putnam decided Harvard will abstain on the resolution...
...Prime Minister Callaghan's Labor government on the way out? That seemed a real possibility after a bizarre session of Commons last week at which Labor whips ordered their members to abstain from voting on a Labor-proposed motion-which led to a resounding 293-to-0 defeat for the government. Following that odd display of parliamentary tactics, Tory Leader Margaret Thatcher demanded a vote of no confidence, which will be taken at midweek. If the government loses, Callaghan will have no choice but to ask the Queen to dissolve the House and call for new elections within weeks...
...evil and lazy they might be tempted to stop at someone else's home for dinner instead of going to their own. Once there, they might stay the rest of the year as well, bringing very bad luck. To avoid this, the Chinese believed it necessary either to abstain from cooking in order not to attract them into their homes with the smells of a good meal, a strategy obviously not in the interests of the living, or else to scare them away with firecrackers and dragons. But as the fear of these evil spirits declined in china...