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...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...
...contract, which union officials describe as Harvard's "final offer," contains a wage increase of 6 per cent this year and 7 per cent next year, as well as additional vacation time for employes with ten or more years' service...
...land it has occupied and governed in defiance of the U.N. since 1966. Those terms will inevitably severely restrict campaign freedoms and guide Namibia into a sham confederation of tribal groupings whose weakness will guarantee the continued economic and political dominance of the whites who make up 10 per cent of the territory's population. The Southwest Africa People's Organization (SWAPO), the Namibian freedom-fighting group that has led the struggle for independence for 12 years, has justly refused to participate in such an election, and has vowed to intensify its armed struggle against South Africa. And most Western...
...women's advocate faces a formidable workload at Harvard. Affirmative action has barely made inroads into the ranks of senior faculty, where only 11 women hold tenured posts--less than 3 per cent of the number of full professors. The faculty also needs to develop more courses about women and to incorporate more material aboqt women into its existing courses...
Jewett spoke of the "all time nigh" in this year's applicant pool--nearly seven per cent larger than last year's--and the increased diversity of the Class of '82, which includes more members from the West and South and more minority students than in the past...