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...college campuses, minority interests suffered and were in large part ignored. Many colleges, Harvard included, seemed resistant to demands for courses in ethnic studies and for hiring of minority hiring. Many colleges, Havard included, continued to refuse to divest from South Africa...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fighting Insensitivity | 2/7/1989 | See Source »

...weeks after his loss, the council has adopted nearly all of Lockwood's agenda, which includes opposition to the all-male status of the nine final clubs and renewed campaigning for Harvard to divest from its South Africa-related corporations...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: Lockwood Lost Chair, But His Proposals Win | 11/29/1988 | See Source »

Four years ago the ACSR voted to recommend that Harvard divest from all South Africa-related stocks but this year's ACSR reversed this position and supported the University's policy of selective divestment...

Author: By Emily M. Bernstein, | Title: University Reports No Divestment | 10/28/1988 | See Source »

...hadn't already promised the job to Jimmy Baker (the guy who showed me how to kick a little ass last week) I would have had you on my short list for secretary of state. Your steadfast refusal to divest Harvard's holdings from companies doing business in South Africa shows you understand the basic idea of foreign policy--the profit motive is far more important than morality. We can't let the concerns of thousands, even millions, of people effect our policy toward their nation. That would be just plain silly...

Author: By Michael J. Bonin, | Title: To Derek, From George | 10/19/1988 | See Source »

Later, in an attempt to divest Labor of another electoral deadweight -- the party's commitment to unilateral nuclear disarmament -- he suggested that Britain might retain nuclear weapons while a Labor government took part in arms talks. But the conferees, led by Ron Todd, head of the Transport and General Workers' Union, instead endorsed unilateralism and called for the removal of all nuclear weapons and bases from Britain. Todd had earlier responded to Kinnock's keynote address with anger. His temper rising as he spoke, the union leader derided Kinnock's supporters as "all sharp suits, cordless telephones, glossy pink roses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain Man in the Middle | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

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