Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...raise money for political campaigns. Nothing eleventh-hour about the most recent efforts of Jay Leno and his wife, Mavis. The couple held a meeting last week in their Beverly Hills, Calif., home to raise $500,000 and plan early strategy for a publicity campaign to end "gender apartheid in Afghanistan." Industry heavyweight Sid Scheinberg and actress Teri Garr were among the 45 people who attended. The group aims to stop corporate investment and to cease recognition by any nation of the Taliban government, which has barred women from schooling and work. Mavis Leno has gone beyond giving parties...
...statue of Abraham Lincoln last week. Thurmond, who in 1948 ran for President as a segregationist and who in 1957 conducted a record-busting filibuster against a civil rights bill, was not always so Mandela friendly. In 1985 he voted against imposing economic sanctions on South Africa's apartheid regime and for a provision declaring Mandela's African National Congress a terrorist group; in 1986 he voted against sanctions again and backed an unsuccessful Reagan veto of the measures. But that was before Mandela got out of jail...
...special convocation to honor Nelson Mandela was a tremendously powerful and unforgettable event. President Mandela credited the University with contributing to South African anti-apartheid and democratic movements in the way that Harvard does best--through educational excellence and opportunity...
During the late 1970s, and early 1980s, when South African apartheid gained global recognition, Harvard chose not to fully divest from companies doing business in South Africa. To the University's credit, a full review was undertaken and a conditional investment policy was announced by then-President Bok. Harvard fell far short, however, of the complete divesture called for by leaders of the anti-apartheid movement...
Since the end of apartheid to the present, Harvard has continued its practice of investing in irresponsible multinational corporations. By the end of 1997, Harvard had over $34 million invested in Shell Oil--a world leader in environmental destruction and human rights abuses. Shell Oil's dubious relationship with the military government of Nigeria has led to the importation of arms and paying the military to suppress local civilian opposition, the execution of Nobel peace laureate Ken Saro-wiwa and eight others for speaking out against its oil drilling operations, and environmental destruction which has caused pollution levels in Nigeria...