Word: gm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...acrimonious exchange followed between Pusey and John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg Professor of Economics. Galbraith rose during the meeting's question period to ask Pusey if the Corporation had consulted Fac-ulty and students in its decision to reject the proposals of Campaign GM. Galbraith also questioned the qualifications of Treasurer George F. Bennett '33 to make policy decisions in regard to apartheid in South Africa...
...When Pusey ruled the question about Bennett out of order, Galbraith responded, "Am I to assume that those of us who have no hope for democracy at GM should have as little hope for democracy at Harvard...
Commenting on the abstention, Michael A. Levett, Loeb Fellow in Advanced Environmental Studies and a coordinator of Campaign GM at Harvard, said, "They're supporting us in principle and Campaign GM in fact. Some day someone is going to convince Harvard that if they believe in something in principle they should do it in fact...
Bennett said that GM had created jobs for blacks as well as for whites in South Africa. "For GM to shut down would put a lot of blacks out of work," he said...
Bennett said he did not think that a pullout by GM would help topple South Africa's apartheid rule...