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...from oppression for Angolese people is about as distant as it can be. One wonders if the president of Gulf was even vaguely aware of the crisis to which the president of Harvard had to devote full-time for nearly a month for even if Harvard were forced to divest it would hurt neither the company nor the price of its stock. But a protest directly against Gulf, or against the U.S. Government because of its military aid, would not have served what may have been a more immediate purpose--the unification and political reawakening of black students at Harvard...
...blacks--members of Harvard-Radcliffe Afro and the Pan African Liberation Committee--staged the six-day occupation to dramatize their demands that Harvard divest itself of 670,000 shares of Gulf Oil stock...
...writing this letter as members of an ad hoc group of students and faculty who, following the occupation of Massachusetts Hall by PALC and AFRO, attempted to organize a public debate on the question: "Should Harvard Divest...
...contacted PALC-AFRO and it agreed to send a representative. Stephen Marglin, professor of Economics, and Derrick Bell, professor of Law, also agreed to speak in favor of the position that Harvard should divest its Gulf stock. The arrangement of the "pro" side was relatively simple to organize, in striking contrast to our attempts to gain speakers for the "con," or Administration side of the question...
Speakers from a wide range of University groups explained that Harvard was morally wrong by refusing to sell its 680,000 shares of Gulf Oil stock. They said because of Gulf's support of the repressive Portuguese regime in Angola, Harvard should divest itself of its stock...