Word: divest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fouquet will try to persuade the four faculty, four alumni, and three other students (not undergraduates) on the committee that Harvard should divest its holdings in banks lending money to the South African government, and vote for the with-drawal from South Africa of other companies in which it holds stocks...
...SASC proposals call for Harvard to divest itself of stocks in banks which loan money to South Africa and to support or initiate shareholder resolutions in all other corporations it holds stock in that do business in South Africa calling for those firms to withdraw their operations...
...petition calls for the University to divest itself of investments in South Africa, issue a public statement of its action, and support shareholder resolutions calling for divestiture by other American corporations...
...SASC has called for Harvard to divest itself of stock in banks operating in South Africa and to support or initiate shareholder resolutions in all other corporations doing business in South Africa urging them to withdraw...
...wake of the South African government's bankruptcy, the Harvard Corporation agrees to divest its stock in banks doing business with the now-defunct regime. A member of the Harvard-Radcliffe South African Solidarity Committee comments: "Shows what students can do when they organize...