Word: funded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard announces the formation of a million dollar fund to help educate needy Angolans...
...Herb" promotion, the University sends Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence to all the dining halls with promises of prizes for the first students to recognize him. No one does, and Spence uses the prize money to endow a junior professorship in communications. The one-time award will fund research for a young scholar who will be prohibitted from teaching classes or even speaking to students. The dean declares, "This may be my most lasting contribution to Harvard...
...University Treasurer Roderick M. MacDougall '51 tells reporters that the new Angolan scholarship fund has absolutely nothing to do with the release of a Harvard student the day before. As an example of the University's longstanding tradition of helping Africans, MacDougall points out the million dollar fund to help educate Black South Africans--which, he adds, also had absolutely nothing to do with pressure on the University...
...Claiming that the University diverted proceeds from secret sales of books to Iran to fund South African internships through a front organization, anti-apartheid activists erect a large book in the center of Harvard Yard...
...learned that the pension fund Bozzotto oversees for the union had several grand invested in companies doing business with the apartheid state...