Word: africa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last three weeks the Corporation has voted in favor of shareholder resolutions calling on the Timken Company to withdraw from South Africa, urging Phillips Petroleum to implement the Sullivan Principles and requesting that Exxon not expand into uranium mining in South Africa--all on the recommendation of the ACSR...
...while the Corporation has endorsed these progressive resolutions, it has limited its call for reform of corporate practices in South Africa by following the ACSR's recommendation not to initiate shareholder resolutions...
...although the Corporation called on the Timken Corporation to withdraw from South Africa because it refused to provide information on its practices there, it has not asked 12 other recalcitrant companies to withdraw because of its policy against initiating shareholder resolutions...
...other proxy action the Corporation abstained on a resolution that would limit Standard Oil's and Mobil's sales to South Africa and voted against a resolution requiring Caterpillar Tractor Company to establish a special committee to review its practices in Sought Africa--as the ACSR suggested...
Despite their constant demands for divestiture in South Africa, activist students have been unsuccessful in persuading the corporate mentality of the administration. However, the kind of student hypocrisy paraded at last Thurday's meeting leads nowhere--with either administrators or students. How can fellow students be expected to take rallies and boycotts seriously when "Strike Now" posters are sold by the Young Spartacans in the Union for two dollars a piece--and activist groups are plagued by the indecision and lack of leadership shown, for example, at last week's nuclear protest meeting (where students left because organizers could...