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Fred Wei-Han Houn '79, a spokesman for the Task Force on Affirmative Action, sent a letter this week to the Harvard Corporation, HAS and The Crimson outlining the circumstances surrounding his firing, and calling his case a "general challenge to HSA's claim to be a 'service to the Harvard community...
...Houn, who served during the past summer as the co-manager of HSA's refrigerator division, was informed on October 10 by Clarence Martin '77-3, the other co-manager, that he was fired from that post, which would normally have expired in February...
...Houn said yesterday that he received no advance warning and was offered no explanation of the firing from Daniel Del Vecchio, the general manager of HSA, or Stephan Pollack, president of HSA--both of whom apparently authorized the firing...
...Houn also charged that because his division attempted to fill affirmative-action guidelines by hiring greater numbers of blacks and other minorities, many of the workers in the division were subjected to "racist remarks from other managers...
...Vecchio said yesterday that he is unaware of the circumstances surrounding Houn's firing...