Word: apartheiders
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...apparent end of apartheid in South Africa means the end of years of controversy for the University--a period marked by protests, sit-ins and other forms of civil disobedience. For those involved in the fight over Harvard's policies toward South Africa during the heyday of that country's all-white regime, the scars of a bygone era will be hard to erase...
...struggle began to peak in 1985, when agroup of concerned Harvard graduates joined forcesto form Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid(HRAAA). The group's vision, critics often said,could be summed up in a single word: divestment...
...questions about Harvard's past are notlikely to be resolved anytime soon, even thoughboth sides agree that the issue of apartheid isessentially mute. Indeed, some alumni say, thedebate that raged so intensely for so many yearsis far from over. Rather, they suggest, it islikely to continue, as the University maps out itsfuture policy toward a new South Africa...
...Alumni organize the Harvard/Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid (HRAAA). In June, Gay W. Seidman '76, an HRAAA-endorsed candidate, is elected to the Board of Overseers...
July 1985 In a letter to then-Senate Majority Leader Robert J. Dole (R-Kan.) and then-Senate Minority Leader Robert C. Byrd (D-W. Va.), Harvard President Derek C. Bok urges that the United States place sanctions on South Africa for refusing to dismantle apartheid...