Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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President Bok announced that the Corporation would not sell its stock in Gulf at a press conference April 19. The Corporation instead asked the company for certain reforms and said it planned to send a fact-finder to Angola. Bok stated that he personally opposed America's policy toward Portuguese colonies in Africa...
Other signs of support for the protesters came from round-the-clock picketing outside; the black Faculty and administrators; Phillips Brooks House Association; 38 Faculty members who signed a statement calling investment in Gulf "morally indefensible"; and six black members of the track team who left the squad indefinitely, issuing a statement supporting the "efforts to influence the end of imperialism, exploitation and political repression...
After citing University plans to have protesters found in contempt of court, the speaker continued, "We would face six-month jail sentences that would remove us from the struggle. The issue is Harvard out of Gulf and not Mass. Hall. Join...
About 50 black protesters, most of the them Harvard students, stage a mill-in at University Hall to demand that Harvard divest itself of its 680,000 shares of Gulf Oil stock. They charge that Gulf, through investment in Portugese colonies in Africa, "facilitates the daily slaughter of Africans...
President Bok announces that the Harvard Corporation will not sell its stock in the Gulf Oil Company. Instead, the Corporation will ask Gulf to set forth its plan for improving its employment, training and management policies. Also, the University will send a fact finder to Angola...