Word: abstaining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Three members of the Corporation along with Putnam comprise this committee. Last year the sub-committee decided to abstain from voting Harvard's Mobil Oil stock on a resolution to have the company's foreign affiliates (including Mobil South Africa) institute affirmative action programs for minority employment. Albert L. Nickerson '33 one of the Fellows on the sub-committee, disqualified himself because he is a former chairman of Mobil's board of directors. If Corporation members removed themselves from every issue in which they were chummy with some of the principals the proposed action is directed against, the subcommittee probably...
...Coalition members were able to make a lot of symbolic changes in the way Berkeley was run. Rather than have half its members abstain from saluting the American flag at the beginning meetings, for example, the council agreed to stop saluting the flag altogether...
...Cairenes seem affected mostly by what the war has done to their observance of Ramadan-the holy month of Islam during which devout Moslems abstain totally from food, drink and tobacco from sunrise to sunset. From Cairo, TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn reports that "normally, Ramadan nights are more lively than the days. The Cairene's habit is to have an enormous 'lunch' at about 2 a.m. and go out on the town celebrating. But now, because of the war, restaurants shut at 11 p.m., as do most cabarets...
...resign and "not to be overthrown by a vote of rejection." Whether Greeks voted yes to accept a so-called republic and permit parliamentary elections next year or no to protest abolition of the monarchy, the outcome was the same-continued iron-fisted rule by Papadopoulos. Greeks could not abstain from voting, since by law they must either vote or risk going to jail. The referendum, in short, was a charade...
...keep Chancellor Willy Brandt in power. Writing in last week's issue of the illustrated weekly Quick, Steiner (who is currently in hiding, probably outside Germany), confessed that he received 50,000 marks (about $20,000) from a member of Brandt's Social Democratic Party to abstain in a secret vote of confidence on the Brandt coalition government. By not voting against Brandt, Steiner betrayed his own party, the opposition Christian Democratic Union (C.D.U.), which expected to oust the Chancellor (TIME...