Word: africa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seven-month war, which already ranks as one of the most curious in Africa's history, seemed to be fizzling out rather than concluding with a bang. The remnants of Amin's forces, accompanied by most of the 2,700 troops sent by Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi to help him, had retreated to Jinja, Uganda's second largest city. Some observers thought the Tanzanians had deliberately left the exit route east from Kampala open to permit the Libyans a face-saving exodus by an airstrip at Jinja some 60 miles to the east of the capital...
Some of the causes of the trouble were specific-demands for more tenured black professors, charges that the black studies program is too meager, pressure on Dartmouth to sell its stock in corporations with holdings in South Africa. Beyond that was a sense that minority students were isolated. At an all-campus meeting, Dartmouth President John Kemeny felt compelled to assure minority students, who make up 10% of Dartmouth's 4,000 enrollment, "This college cares deeply about...
...divestiture movement is developing into the Viet Nam issue of the late 1970s," says exiled black South African Dennis Brutus, professor of English at Northwestern, and a leader of the campaign to get universities to ditch stock of companies doing business in South Africa. The universities of Massachusetts and Wisconsin, among others, have responded to student demands that such stock be sold to protest South Africa's apartheid policies, while debate over the issue has caused demonstrations at Princeton, Stanford and Columbia. But in an open letter to students last week, Harvard President Derek Bok presented his university...
...Harvard to divest ($300 million, or about 30%, of its portfolio involves companies with business connections in South Africa), Bok said there would have to be proof that the action would help overcome apartheid, persuade American firms to leave South Africa, and offer more encouragement to black workers than the alternative policy of pressing companies at stockholder meetings to improve treatment of black workers. "Harvard has declared its opposition to the South African regime," said Bok, "and has pledged itself to vote on shareholder resolutions in the manner best calculated to overcome apartheid." Calling this course "the most ethically responsible...
...politics, and even the state's closely watched presidential primary. In Michigan, John P. McGoff fired two editors in his small right-wing chain when they refused to give front-page play to a couple of vicious anti-Carter stories. Last week the government of South Africa admitted that it made available $11.5 million from a secret slush fund in 1974 during McGoff s unsuccessful attempt to buy the Washington Star. Presumably, South Africa hoped to turn the Star into a public relations organ for that country's racism. Loeb and McGoff are anachronisms, but hardly powerful...