Word: africas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proposal asking Harvard to divest from its stocks in all companies doing business in South Africa reached the floor of the Board in December, was diverted to a committee meeting in February, and prompted the creation of an unprecedented joint panel composed of overseers and members of the seven-man Corporation in April. The Board has yet to vote on the proposal itself...
...between the University community--whether student protesters, faculty dissenters or overseers--and the inner core that makes most major policy decisions. The gap is especially evident to those divestment activists who hoped to use positions on the Board of Overseers to force the University to sell its South Africa holdings...
...Yale for his 20th reunion. He said that although Schmidt received applause at the symposium when he defended the shanties as an expression of free speech, the crowd reacted with mixed applause and boos when the president went on to defend Yale's $161 million in South Africa- linked holdings...
...accused of setting fire to theshanties was not influenced by racism, Danielssaid. Rather, Daniels said Bracey has served as aChristian missionary and volunteered his medicalservices in Soweto, South Africa to help SouthAfrican Blacks in the summe, of 1983. He has alsoworked in Kenya, Tanzania, Australia, New Zealandand Vietnam over the years...
Bracey then mentioned his three-month servicein Soweto and said, "Blacks have the best medicaltreatment in Africa," adding that the media hasdistorted the true situation in that apartheidstate, Charney said...