Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Says Bishop Desmond Tutu, the winner of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize. "Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor and they should know that they are buttressing one of the world's most vicious systems...
Harvard now plays the leading role in the campaign against divestment, but the people who populate and run the University--the students and teachers and workers--overwhelmingly favor ending Harvard's financial endorsement of apartheid. It is our special responsibility to urge President Bok to call off his perplexing and losing battle against sanctions and to use his position and enormous influence to become a leader in the movement for divestment...
...everyone was absolutely in favor of the decision," said Laura G. Fisher '69, who will replace William R. Fitzsimmons '67 as director of admissions at Harvard effective...
Kennedy would not comment on Bok's letter, which Craig said has not yet been received in Washington. But Craig said views such as Bok's will be useful in Kennedy's battle against Reagan supporters in Congress, who oppose the imposition of sanctions on South Africa in favor of "constructive engagement...
...Department, for sitting tight and hoping whatever's new and exciting will go away with next year's graduates. But that strategy hasn't paid off with all the permutations of New Criticism, which refused to crawl away and die, and the odds aren't in the department's favor now. As it is, students are deserting the English Department in large numbers for the greener pastures of Literature or of History and Literature...