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Putting the matter bluntly, the Corporation is attempting to bread a commitment made four years ago to the Harvard community and the Black majority in South Africa. In response to sustained mass student protest, the University agreed in 1978 to automatically divest its debt securities in banks making direct loans to the South African government. At the time, anti-apartheid activists, including myself, viewed this reform as a disappointing minimalist concession...
...Corporation first moved to retract this concession after being forced to divest $50 million in Citibank debt securities following the announcement of the bank's participation in a consortium loan to South Africa in September 1980. Much to the Corporation's dismay, Harvard's commendable action received unexpectedly widespread press coverage and proved highly embarrassing to Citibank and the South African regime. Soon after, Citibank dispatched a representative to consult with the Corporation and lobby University officials to relax their present policy. The Corporation responded by applying pressure on the ACSR to approve the repeal of the 1978 concession...
...January meeting with a homily on the evils of apartheid and the great weight he placed on ethical criteria in investment policy. Then, almost as a casual afterthought, he asked the ACSR to rectify a "minor flaw" in the University's current bank policy which would force it to divest from banks trying to make "good loans" to the South African government. He gave as an example the Citibank loan which he claimed South African Blacks actually solicited...
...since the breakup of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil empire in 1911 has there been a more complex and potentially revolutionary restructuring of a U.S. corporation. The agreement opens the way for AT&T to divest itself of the least profitable and slowest-growing side of its business, local telephone service, by spinning off its 22 operating subsidiaries. At the same time, the company will be permitted to hang on to its very profitable and rapidly growing long-distance operations, which in 1980 accounted for more than 50% of AT&T's $51 billion in revenue. Even...
Under the terms of the settlement, AT&T, which until now has controlled 80% of the U.S. telephone market, will sell its local operations. The company agreed to undertake a corporation-wide reorganization and divest itself, within the next 18 months, of its 22 operating companies. These include such firms as Ohio Bell, Pacific Telephone and New York Telephone. The divestiture will not immediately require raising new capital or issuing new stock. Holders of A T & T shares will simply obtain stock in the new companies...