Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that Harvard refuses to hold stock in some South Africa-related companies. In particular, these companies are those that do more than a small part of their business in South Africa, loan money to the South African government, sell significant goods and services used in the direct enforcement of apartheid by the South African government, refuse to disclose information about their business in South Africa or fail to meet the Harvard Corporation's conception of responsible ethical standards...
...fundamental problem with selective divestment is that it allows Harvard to continue to invest in companies that do business in South Africa. Selective divestment thus fails to stop Harvard from profiting from a system of institutionalized racism. Only by completely divesting will Harvard sever its links to apartheid in South Africa...
...rationale behind the Corporation's policy is that some companies are doing more good than harm in their South Africa-related businesses. Although some companies do have programs to help Black South Africans, the ultimate result of their business is to help sustain the apartheid regime. No matter how progressive a company may be, it cannot end apartheid...
...white South Africa over this demand." De Klerk's proposal for power sharing is to establish a constitutional mechanism that would safeguard "group rights," which sounds like a way of perpetuating privilege for the country's 5 million whites. Nonetheless Mandela recently endorsed the idea that the first post- apartheid government would be a coalition of all major parties...
During the early days of detente, Henry Kissinger argued that wrapping the Soviet Union in a web of agreements and exchanges would drain off its belligerence. Ronald Reagan believed in "constructive engagement" to break down the apartheid regime in South Africa. Bush refused to freeze contacts with China even after the massacre of students in Beijing...