Word: africa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard should recognize that South Africa is such a special case and divest of its South Africa related investments, Thomson said...
...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...
...open letter, President Bok's argument is presented as if it were a deductively logical discourse accurately representing the reality of the Harvard community's South Africa dilemma. Let us look first to the argument's, underlying assumptions, second, to its logic, and finally, to the choice it represents...
...stated earlier, engaged in a monitoring effort which I would very much like to see us support. In the meantime, in the next six weeks we will face 40 resolutions directed at 22 companies. Some of these resolutions are, many of them, in fact, concern the South Africa matter. I have had a number of people express the concern to me that the process of collecting information and digesting it on South African companies is sufficiently lengthy, ongoing, and currently incomplete, that we will not respond at all to these resolutions...
...would be happy to answer questions about these or other matters that affect our policy on South Africa. I do want to convey to you, though it is not always obvious, that there is a group of 12 people who have spent the better part of this year trying, in the name of the long-run objective of altering companies' behavior in South Africa, who have spent this time learning about this behavior, trying to formulate policy on it. I would like to see us give this policy some continued opportunities to succeed. I think, if I had more time...