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...CCSR also abstained from a proposal that Aon corporation divest its tobacco stock holdings and on both proposals it received regarding equal opportunity and diversity issues...
Rowe decided to make NEES the first electric utility to get out of power generation. Under its new marketing pacts, the company will cut customer rates 10%. It will also divest itself of 20 power-generation plants. The anticipated $1 billion or so from the sale, however, will not pay down NEES's $3.5 billion to $4.5 billion in "stranded costs"--capital and other expenditures related to mandated power contracts with independent producers...
About 50 black protesters, most of the them Harvard students, stage a mill-in at University Hall to demand that Harvard divest itself of its 680,000 shares of Gulf Oil stock. They charge that Gulf, through investment in Portugese colonies in Africa, "facilitates the daily slaughter of Africans...
...clearest recollections of the class of '72 are of being one of the group of students who seized Massachusetts Hall--President Derek Bok's office--for more than a week. We demanded that Harvard divest its shares in Gulf Oil, which was then underwriting oppressive regimes in Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau and Angola...
...largest and most effective campus demonstration ever. During the demonstration, the Yard was fully circled with thousands of sympathetic supporters who came to protest and to protect us against the possibility of a '69-type bust. There was no bust and Harvard did not divest. We did, however, focus the attention of the nation on an important human-rights issues. At the '72 Commencement we carried black crosses to symbolize our struggle...