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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Faculty meeting on Tuesday, Mary Nolan, associate professor of History spoke at some length about United States investments in South Africa, using as her text a "report of the Senate subcommittee on African Affairs." During her address she referred many times to the findings and conclusions of this subcommittee of the Senate on Foreign Relations, chaired by former Senator Dick Clark...
...meetings occasionally address more than local issues. A few years back, when Richard Nixon was still in office, the Lexington Town Meeting spent a good hour debating in all seriousness whether the Saturday Night Massacre of October, 1973 was enough reason not to invite him to the town for its annual Patriots Day celebration...
Like some other lapsed academics who have gone into politics, however, I am considering returning to academic life next year. I would like to address my remarks on the South Africa issue not directly to what has been said today, at least initially, but rather by way of posing what seemed to me, having spent some time thinking about it, are the central questions that one inevitably confronts in worrying about this issue...
...second question that I'd like to address is the question, should companies expand by investing in South Africa? I think the answer to that question should be no. The reason is that while the existing assets will be used, if not by us, then by others, it seems to me no reason to expand the assets and the wealth of the South African economy by investing now in view of the serious risks. Conditions will deteriorate in that country in the very near future, and those assets will be used to the detriment, rather than the benefit, of black...
Finally, I would like to address some remarks to the question of what has been going on, and what will be going on this spring with respect to the South African issue, assuming that there is no change in the policy of the Corporation. First, in January, the ACSR issued a report on the question of actions that a university should or should not take as a shareholder. I'd like, in view of remarks that have been made about this report, to say several things about...