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...response, the Corporation agreed to review investments on a case-by-case basis, but refused to accept the ACSR's suggestion that it divest from banks lending money directly to the apartheid regime...
...month since the Supreme Court put the law into effect and no policy has been announced. One other example is investment ethics. While President Bok has long resisted demands for the injection of effective morality into the University's portfolio the Commonwealth of Massachusetts late last year voted to divest its pension fund from companies doing business in South Africa...
...order was part of a 159-page opinion that virtually completes the legal restructuring of A T & T. The mammoth undertaking, the largest breakup of a company in history, has been under way since January 1982, when AT&T agreed to divest its local units to settle a Government antitrust suit. "This decision in a sense is the final word on telephone reorganization," said Theodore Whitehead, a Washington attorney who specializes in communications...
...South African Solidarity Committee, will likely monitor administration policies and will continue a series of demonstrations and candlelight vigils as in past years. A different kind of protest occurred in May when several students and one faculty member fasted for seven days in an attempt to force Harvard to divest Predictably, the University did not budge...
Although South African investments are the center of attention, the ACSR has made recommendations on other stocks. The Corporation agreed with its suggestion to abstain on company shareholder resolutions which deal with nuclear weapons but has not acted on their recommendation to divest from Philip Morris because the company makes cigarettes...