Word: extended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC) last night passed a proposal urging the Harvard Corporation to sell all of its stock in commercial banks that extend loans to the South African government...
...meeting last night the committee postponed till its next meeting consideration of a proposal urging Harvard Corporation to sell its shares in commercial banks which extend credit to the South African government. Such shares are worth slightly less than $1.2 million, according to the 1975-76 financial report to the Board of Overseers...
HARVARD'S DECISION to extend its contract to oversee the design of the Reza Shah Kabir University (RSKU), that the Iranian government is constructing outside Teheran, is a deplorable one. Along with the $250,000 consulting agreement Harvard signed last spring with the Iranian Educational Radio and Television (IERT), another project sponsored by the Iranian government, this decision once again reveals Harvard's disheartening willingness to cooperate with one of the most repressive regimes in the world today...
Recently a resolution, Senate Res. 264, was introduced in the U.S. Senate to extend the life of the Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs for two years past its current expiration date of December 31, 1977. Tomorrow the Rules Committee will vote on the resolution, after which it will (one hopes) go to the Senate floor for approval. Inasmuch as select committees generally need to be reauthorized periodically, this seems a trivial development. However, this past February the Senate and the leaders of the Nutrition Committee committed themselves to folding the Select Committee into the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition...
...committee by a unanimous vote on the Senate floor (a few Senators, however, abstained). Encouraged by this vote, Nutrition Committee Chairman George McGovern (D.-S. Dak.), Sens. Robert Dole (R.-Kan.), Hubert Humphrey (D.-Minn.), Henry Bellmon (R.-Okla.), Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D.-Mass.) and others fought to extend the Nutrition Committee on a year-by-year basis, as had been done in the past. Nutritions ranking minority member Charles Percy (R.-Ill.) made the impassioned plea...