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...most flagrant indication, of course, was the comment of senior Corporation fellow Hugh Calkins '45 to members of the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) that Harvard does not take ethical considerations into account in the initial decision to buy shares in a company. While it sounds unduly harsh, this statement probably represented little more than a semantic change in the University's South Africa policy. As it is, Harvard says it checks up on companies already in its portfolio to make sure they are in some way working for "constructive change" in South Africa Calkins statement simply means Harvard...
...support the union" since organizing efforts began in 1978 at Litton's transplanted (from Minneapolis) microwave-oven plant in Sioux Falls, S. Dak. After workers voted in the union, Darby charged, Litton canceled a February pay raise, took away a dozen paid sick days and began a harsh new absentee policy that led to dozens of firings. "I don't understand," said Darby, "why a Litton can just laugh...
...approved only 74 applications for asylum from Salvadorans, rejected 1,067, and faces a backlog of 25,000 other cases. The Government, which has deported 24,700 Salvadorans since 1980, argues that most Central American refugees are ineligible to be granted asylum under U.S. law because they are fleeing harsh economic conditions rather than political persecution. The INS declares that there is no proof that those deported from the U.S. have been tortured or executed, although Salvadorans in the U.S. insist that those who have been sent back have disappeared or been mistreated...
...stance is not as harsh as that taken Sunday by the Undergraduate Council, which called on the Corporation to totally divest. The council's representative, chairman Sesha Pratap '83, was not present at last night's meeting and did not sign the HCSL letter...
...protectionist," he said defensively. He had repeated his assault on the Japanese before three large union conventions last fall. By February, when he addressed the United Auto Workers, the union most eager to hear that kind of emotional talk, Mondale had abandoned all the harsh language...