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The ACSR also voted to urge the Corporation to send a letter to the Hewlett-Packard Company's board of directors, explaining the Corporation's February abstention on a proposal that would have suspended the company's "non-humanitarian" sales of computers to the South African government.
A resolution at Dow Chemical Company--to establish a review committee and conduct a detailed study concerning the company's production of two herbicides, "Silvex" and "2,4,5,-T," a chemical linked to the disputed Agent Orange--also received a Corporation abstention.
Kenneth Propp, 'a second-year Law School student and ACSR representative, said last night, after hearning the Corporation's statement, "They have failed to supply any appropriate reason for differing with the ACSR. The abstention is inexplicable."
Eric W. Ascherman '81, a member of the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee, said he believes the Corporation's abstention "has managed to avoid taking any kind of serious stand" on the South Africa issue.
The ACSR's recommendation to the corporation will include "persuasive arguments" in favor of the motion, abstention was not in accordance with the weigh of the evidence.