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...Doland was not entirely overjoyed with his promotion. "I'll miss being out there, picking a blade of grass and putting it in my mouth," he told the Lake Charles American Press. "I'd rather have coached this year. But the board of regents told me to divest myself of the sideline duties as soon as possible." While his public candor was earning sympathetic chuckles, the McNeese Cowboys obligingly went out and won the first seven games of the season...
...forget Zimbabwe a minute and talk about divestment. Should Americans divest their holdings in corporations doing business in South Africa...
Student dissatisfaction with Harvard's investments re-emerged in the fall of 1977 when members of the SASC called on Harvard to divest of its holdings in banks loaning to the South African government and to urge corporations to withdraw from that country through shareholder resolutions...
...ACSR recommended that the Corporation send "forcefully worded" statements to recalcitrant companies rather than divest from these firmsas the April 1978 Corporation report indicated...
...SASC's major campaign this fall, its members emphasize, will be a canvassing drive for a city referendum calling on Cambridge to divest of its holding in banks operating in South Africa. Committee members will encourage students to register for the vote this week and will canvass on behalf of the referendum right up until the local elections in November. If Cambridge approves the referendum, it will join Berkeley, Cal., which voted last spring to divest of its holdings in banks loaning to South Africa...