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Approximately 10 times a year, Widener and 30 other libraries receive crateloads of Indian books from the headquarters of the Library of Congress. The books are purchased by a government fund which dates to the early 1960s, and a time when America shipped grain to India; Harvard pays only for the delivery...
Even today, nearly a decade after India becamegrain efficient, the book purchasing plan issupported by a few percent of a one billion ruppee endowment which roughly translates into a $100 million fund, that goes to the Defense Department and other bureaus of the government...
...past four years, members of the senior class have organized fund drives for the Endowment for Divestiture (E4D), which holds gifts from the senior class in escrow until the University divests from corportations that do business in South Africa...
...account currently holds about $20,000, and if the University does not completely divest by 2003, the fund's graduate board will donate the money to Cambridge charities or Phillips Brooks House...
Martin said he does not know if the proposed committee will organize an E4D fund drive. He stressed that his letter, which proposes organizational meetings on November 11 and 17, is only an exploration...