Word: allowances
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard's standard justification for shareholding policies that allow corporations to lend support to white supremacy in Southern Africa does not apply in the AMAX case. Harvard gains solace from rationalizing that Africa operations represent a minute portion of their overall worldwide corporate involvements. Unfortunately, Tsumeb contributed an average of 7 per cent to AMAX's total profits during the 10-year period ending in 1972. Since its formation after World War II, Tsumeb has contributed more than $150 million in tax revenues to South Africa's colonial administration in Namibia...
...political status of Namibia has finally reached a time of hard, no-nonsense decisions. Last week, an ailing John Vorster announced his resignation as South African Prime Minister and, as his final act in office, backed out on the tentative agreement Pretoria and Namibian nationalists made in July to allow United Nations military and civilian personnel to supervise the election of an independent Namibian government...
...independence in Namibia, the miner-rich territory South Africa has illegally occupied in defiance of U.N. ruling since 1966. Last week, in an 11th-hour decision, retiring South African Prime Minister John Vorster announced that South Africa would conduct its own independence election in the territory, rather than allow U.N. troops and civilian personnel to supervise the election of a transitional Namibian government...
...Harvard hockey team will not allow a goal to be scored against them in Watson Rink...
...National Energy Act in April, 1977. The Department of Energy, White House lobbyists, and senators like Majority Leader Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.) have all taken a hand at trying to force the bill through Congress. They claim that higher prices will promote development of new gas sources, and allow producers to extract already-discovered gas which is currently too expensive to bring up from the ground. New gas supplies will replace imported oil as a major energy resource, the argument runs, easing the U.S. balance of payments deficit and making Americans less dependent on foreign energy sources...