Word: africa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Richard Guthrie '80, a concentrator in Afro-Am, said he wants the department to concentrate on the link between Afro-Americans and Africa...
Gray said MIT will maintain its position on the "terribly complicated" issue of divestiture of South Africa-related investments, adding that it is "appropraite for MIT to urge companies to hold to the Sullivan Principles." The multinational Sullivan Principles set guidelines for the conduct of corporations in developing countries...
...empire was mercifully short-lived. While Bokassa was away in Libya last week, he was deposed in a bloodless, midnight coup by former President David Dacko, himself overthrown by Bokassa in 1966. The downfall of the "Butcher of Bangui" gave Africa something to cheer about: the continent is now rid of its three most notorious dictators. In April, Field Marshal Idi Amin Dada was driven from Uganda by rebels and invading Tanzanian troops. Last month the equally despised President-for-Life of tiny Equatorial Guinea, Francisco Macias Nguema, was booted by a military coup...
...accept partly deferred wage or benefit payments in return for a voice in management by workers. Fraser, a fan of the West German system of worker representatives on boards of directors, said he is likely to ask for "representation on the board, limitations on investing pension money in South Africa, and setting aside money for socially desirable objectives. Worker representation cannot be a facade...
Many of the reports on the individual activities of corporations in South Africa were "sketchy" last year, Vagts said, adding, the committee "may very well" recommend that the Harvard Corporation use shareholder resolutions to goad the corporations into releasing more substantial information...