Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...following text is a transcript of Monday's full Faculty meeting, where 11 Faculty members discussed University policy toward its South-African-related investments. The first part of the transcript appeared in yesterday's Crimson...
...Mansfield said. I don't think this is a question that necessarily should divide us along left-right lines. I think I feel very strongly about the Soviet Union as well, but I think the issue here is that because of the compostion and special character of the South African apartheid system, what goes on there resonates in a special way with American society and American values. And that's why I think we've recognized it as a special case. Harvard already enjoys, perhaps suffers, a reputation as a place largely populated by bleeding-hearts, or worse, perhaps among...
...think what we're looking for is a more aggressive, forward posture on behalf of the University, toward this issue, one that makes it clear to the corporations that the burden of proof rests on them to show their activities actively promote, actively serve to undermine the South African apartheid system...
...think the serious point being made here is that the American people and the South African people have both been guilty of crimes against blacks. But there I think the resemblance ends. And even if the resemblance didn't end there, isn't it irrational to limit your moral concern only to those crimes which you have committed? These are the two arguments I've found to specialize the question of apartheid over the question of genocide. I'm left in admiration for President Bok's two open letters and in particular for his notion that the University...
...President, it seems to me that in this debate, at least among those who have declared themselves to be in general agreement on the question of the singularity of South African repression, that there is one lesson that overrides all the others, which is the lesson of powerlessness. I have heard, and I think it is shared by many of us, even many of us who have signed the letter, the open letter which was submitted, that there is not a great deal which we can do in an immediate sense to change the character of the South African regime...