Word: africas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...demonstration of repeated errors of judgment should be of deep concern not only to the American people but also to the whole world. This is the man on whose judgment we rely in a wide range of international issues, including armed nuclear response. JOHN DEVERE-LOOTS Kloof, South Africa...
Since the Asian financial crisis began over ayear ago, foreign markets have seen sharp drops.Harvard's investments in emergingmarkets--including Russia, Brazil, Argentina,Korea, Taiwan, India and South Africa--also postedheavy losses...
...struggles for freedom in South Africa, which were so costly to many South Africans, were also supported by a number of students, faculty and employees at Harvard, who engaged in our own struggle with the institution's desire not to be involved. It is too easy now for officials to laud President Mandela as a "royal" leader whose dedicated struggles led to his peoples freedom. We in the U.S. had a real role in supporting the South African racist regime, and Harvard should own up to that. SUSAN C. EATON '79- '80 Sept...
Mister President, we accept this great honour bestowed upon us today as a symbol of how South African and the United States, Africa and the West, the developing and the developed world, are reaching out and joining hands as partners in building a world order that equally benefits all nations and people of the world...
When I was an undergraduate between 1975 and 1980, many students of all racial and ethnic backgrounds were active in the South Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC). At the time, Harvard's leaders were totally uninterested in playing any role in the struggle for democracy and racial equality, and were totally unresponsive to repeated requests to consider divesting in companies which did extensive business in South Africa in cooperation with the white regime...