Word: divests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard should recognize that South Africa is such a special case and divest of its South Africa related investments, Thomson said...
Charles Longsworth, who was president of Hampshire in 1977, decided to divest when students occupied the Cole Science Center, locking out all faculty members and administrators to protest Hampshire's South-Africa-related investments, Gluckler said. "We really needed a strong investment policy," he added...
...subject of controversy at Harvard. Everyone here, at least in words, opposes apartheid. The questions before the Harvard community are: whether it is appropriate for Harvard to maintain investments in corporations which operate in South Africa; what the impact would be of a move to divest from such corporations; and how to weigh the contribution that action would make to anti-apartheid efforts against the possible financial losses to Harvard from changing its investment policy...
...suppose Harvard announced that it intended to divest from corporations which operate in South Africa, thereby joining a growing international effort to ostracize the Nationalist government of that country through economic and other sanctions. Naturally, time will be allowed to effect an orderly transition to an investment policy based on stocks not involved with South Africa, real estate, government bonds, etc.; but after a specified date Harvard would have severed its financial ties to the apartheid regime. What could we expect to be the impact of such an action by Harvard...
...Utopian notions"). The bishops condemned the "national security" ideologies that undergird most of Latin America's military regimes for leading "to the abuse of power and violation of human rights," but they also denounced leftist terrorism. Echoing the Pope's address, the document cautions priests to "divest themselves of all political ideology." But it does advocate Christian action. Said the bishops: "We ask all Christians to collaborate in the changing of unjust structures and to communicate gospel values to the entire culture where we live...