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Many members of this community would like Harvard to take a different course and divest all of its stock in American companies doing business in South Africa. I have disagreed with this view, and I continue to do so. Much as I oppose apartheid, I strongly believe that universities should not attempt to use their political and economic views on other organizations and individuals beyond the campus. This is essentially what Harvard would be doing by divesting-boycotting the stock of American companies to bring the pressure of this institution to bear against them to have them cease doing business...
...than 3,300 well-groomed parishioners and visitors. At the lectern, Republican Senator Jesse Helms, avatar of the Moral Majority, gazed out approvingly at the congregation. These were Helms' kind of people: religious, conservative, white. "We live in a time when secular humanism is demanding that our nation divest itself of religion," intoned Helms. "There is a cacophony of voices-political, news media, television, movies-mocking the very moral and spiritual base from which America came to be a great nation." The speech was typical of Helms' campaign style: short and calculated to reinforce a "them...
...issue on which the Corporation has been most visible during President Bok's tenure has been shareholder responsibility. It first surfaced in 1972 when a group of Black students occupied Massachusetts Hall, demanding that Harvard divest from companies doing business in Angola. The University refused and has also resisted persistent pressure to divest from firms with operations in South Africa. Except perhaps for the Mass Hall takeover, which ended peacefully after a week, there has never been a crisis over divestiture, and the Corporation has been able to study the issue in excruciating detail. Former Treasurer George Putnam...
...Boston City Council Wednesday passed an ordinance which if enacted would force the city to divest all public funds from firms doing business in South Africa and Namibia...
...Harvard, activists have fought unsuccessfully for more than a decade to get the University to adopt a similar policy and divest from all companies operating in South Africa in an attempt to get the country to end its segregated apartheid system...