Word: africa
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...international laws govern the christening of countries: the label that sticks is determined by the tastes or even the sanity of its rulers. Anti- colonialism, however, is the most common rationale for national renaming. During the 1950s and '60s, anti-colonialism swept through the newly independent nations of Africa. The Gold Coast dubbed itself Ghana, in honor of an ancient African empire that was located hundreds of miles from the modern nation. When the Belgian Congo became independent in 1960, it renamed itself the Republic of the Congo. Eleven years later, President Joseph Mobutu rechristened it the Republic of Zaire...
...proposed Volume II remains open-ended. Greene is 84 and still active (The Captain and the Enemy, his 24th novel, was published last year). Sherry, a professor of literature at Trinity University in San Antonio, has yet to tackle Greene's Africa service with British intelligence, his marital breakup, love affairs, involvements with the movie business, anti-Americanism and friendships with left-wing Latin American leaders Fidel Castro and Omar Torrijos of Panama. One should also expect deep penetration of the privacy that surrounds Greene's life in the south of France, where he has lived since...
...Corporation and Board of Overseers approve a report calling on companies to withdraw from South Africa. They do not, however, modify the current University policy of divesting only from those companies that do not follow the Sullivan Principles of selective divestment. Activists, members of the faculty, alumni and the student advisory committee to the Harvard Corporation complain that the step is merely symbolic...
...Harvard releases a report showing that investments in South Africa-related companies fell from $230.9 million to $163.8 million--more than 30 percent during the last six months of 1988. But University money managers say the drop was caused by company divestments and not by any direct efforts on Harvard's part...
Many say Bok's refusal to divest totally of Harvard's South Africa-related investments--despite more than a decade of pressure from campus and alumni activists--is typical of this attitude. The president's stand is so firm that his associates generally refer to divestment as a matter already settled, citing the effort they say Bok has put into examining the issue...