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President Bok, responding to the Rev. Jesse I. Jackson's March 12 open letter asking Harvard to divest its $565 million of stock in companies which do business in South Africa, recently reaffirmed, the University's long-standing opposition to such divestment...
...release of the letter, dated April 2, comes during a week filled with protests calling on Harvard to divest of stock in companies with South African operations. The University has long held that complete divestment is ineffective as a method to fight South African's legal segregation of its Black majority population...
...groups, says that Bok's criticims of Reagan's policy "constructive engagement" is hypocritical. The students cited Bok's criticism of the Administration's "tacit acquiescence in a status quo which offends our most precious ideas," charging that this position could equally apply to Harvard's reluctance to completely divest...
...insult that we even have to get together to make Harvard divest," she added...
...Bozzotto argued yesterday that "When we force Harvard to divest, that will bring down apartheid...