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...week after the October 22, 1967 march on Washington, the one Norman Mailer '43 described in The Armies of the Night, 300 Harvard students imprisoned in Mallinckrodt for seven hours a recruiter from Dow Chemical, the principal manufacturer of napalm for use in Vietnam. Even SDS was caught by surprise. Its executive committee had called for simple picketing. But the 375 students who voluntarily turned in their bursar's cards to the administration adopted four demands: no on-campus recruiting by Dow, the CIA, or the U.S. military, and no disciplinary action against the demonstrators. President Nathan M. Pusey...
...Harvard is involved in the War in Vietnam like any other agency or organization of the American people," Dean Ford told protesters. A week after the Dow sit-in 150 picketers greeted recruiters from the Marines and the Institute for Defense Analysis. A Crimson survey found 94 per cent of Harvard's students opposed to American policy in Vietnam, with 38 per cent favoring immediate with-drawal...
When President Pusey's annual report denounced the "Walter Mittys of the left," and the university announced that a Dow recruiter would be back in February, 200 students satin at University Hall--Harvard's first sit-in in an administration building. Other students shared some of their concerns. The senior class, inviting a Class Day speaker for the first time, asked Martin Luther King, citing his "dramatic linking" of Vietnam and the plight of American cities. King was shot the next week, and his widow replaced him at commencement...
More than one American entrepreneur has befriended the Greek military regime, and industrialists reap large profits at the expense of Greek laborers. Multi-national corporations, including Exxon, Coca-Cola (both represented by Pappas), Dow Chemical and Alcoa, are exempt from a variety of taxes and duties. This is specified in the Greek constitution. Trade unions have been scrapped or stripped of power by the government, in order to maintain the low wages that attract foreign monopolists. Such economic tactics have driven about 250,000 workers to seek jobs in West Germany...
Other barter deals involve a kind of commission paid in goods rather than cash. Dow Chemical Co., for example, currently ships ethylene to other chemical processors who cannot get the substance elsewhere. The processors convert the ethylene to polyethylene, then ship a percentage of the polyethylene to Dow and keep the rest as payment. Dow can in turn continue to supply polyethylene to its customers...