Word: anties
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While members of the Harvard Corporation have refused to meet with pro-divestment activists this fall, a prominent member of Yale's governing body said Saturday that anti-apartheid pressure will eventually force the New Haven school to sell its $400 million of investments in companies that do business in South Africa...
Before Tsongas spoke, about 200 anti-apartheid protesters peacefully demonstrated for divestment outside the Yale Corporation meeting, and the body was presented a pro-divestment petition signed by 172 Yale faculty members...
...DEAL COULD BECOME a formidable victory for Iran if the nation achieves a decisive breakthrough in their next offensive against Iraq--probably in February to coincide with the Revolution's anniversary. For the time being, Khomeini can afford to return to his vehement anti-Americanism, and even denounce unnamed Iranian officials for harboring pro-Satanic tendencies...
...week began, corporate raiders seemed to have been cowed by the surge in anti-takeover sentiment. That mood may have helped persuade Revlon Group Chairman Ronald Perelman to give up his hostile $4.1 billion offer to buy Gillette, the razor-blade maker. Probably more important, though, was the ! fast $34 million that Revlon earned by promising to back off. Investors branded the payoff as a clear case of greenmail, since Gillette agreed to buy back Perelman's 13.9% stake in the company at a premium price that was unavailable to other shareholders...
...Israel sent a planeload of arms to Iran. The cargo consisted mostly of Soviet-made weapons that the Israelis had captured in Lebanon. Though the plane landed safely at Tehran's Mehrabad airport, the arms never got to the Iranian army. They were seized by members of the vehemently anti- Western Revolutionary Guards...