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Nonetheless, Rosovsky made erasure of the deficit one of his two prime goals in office early on--the other was the reform of undergraduate education--and for his role in persuading departments to cut administrative and fringe costs, stop adding to faculty and even abstain from filling positions, and cutting energy bills, Kaufmann has been well rewarded. Some UHall sources say he is now Rosovsky's most trusted adviser. Next year Kaufmann will move up in fact if not in title: he may have a seat on the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) and will devote more time...
ALTHOUGH THE Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) should be commended for its recent statement opposing the Arab nations' economic boycott of Israel, the ACSR's recommendation that Harvard abstain from voting on shareholder resolutions aimed against the Arab boycotts betrays a misplaced faith in the actions of the federal government...
...recommendation, which urges the Harvard Corporation abstain on resolutions requiring corporations to disclose whether they comply with the boycott, the ACSR stated that it believes governmental action against the boycott is now more appropriate than shareholder action, and that disclosure resolutions are therefore premature...
...Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) recommended this week that the Harvard Corporation abstain from voting on shareholder resolutions that would force corporations to reveal whether they comply with the Arab nations' economic boycott of Israel...
...vote, Kissinger belatedly ordered ambassadors to visit the foreign ministers of five key Third World governments, but after the vote, Western European delegates complained that Moynihan's "threatening" tactics had made face-saving compromise impossible. One European ambassador reported that three African delegates claimed they could not even abstain in the vote for fear of appearing to knuckle under to an American ambassador who had called the Organization of African Unity's chairman, President Idi Amin Dada of Uganda, a "racist murderer." Moynihan feels that without a strong stand the vote might have been worse. Israeli Ambassador Chaim...