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...Corporation's subcommittee on shareholder responsibility also abstained on an ACSR-backed resolution calling for reports on conditions in the Continental Oil Company's mines. It voted Harvard's $76 million in IBM stock against ACSR-endorsed resolutions calling for shareholder nominations of IBM directors and for information on IBM's South African operations...
...combination, the IRRC and the internal process represented by the ACSR and the Corporation subcommittee have increased the likelihood that Harvard's proxies will be voted on the basis of merit and not on blind prejudices. Regardless of how the Corporation votes this week on IBM, Continental Oil and Mobil -- and there is more room for disagreement with the ACSR this time -- the precedents set this Spring reflect a thoughtfulness previously missing in proxy policy...
...Princeton University Council Resources Committee, a group similar to Harvard's Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility, decided last week to advise Princeton trustees not to support any of five proposed shareholder resolutions to IBM, Mobil Oil, and American Metal Climax...
...committee advised the trustees to reject proposals calling for Mobil Oil to implement affirmative action employment programs in nations where it invests, for IBM to disclose its business operations in South Africa, and for American Metal to do "whatever is feasible" to reduce environmental damage caused by its operations...
Henkel, Henkel GmbH; Stephen F. Keating, Honeywell; Folke Lindskog, Svenska Kullagerfabriken (S.K.F.); Jacques G. Maisonrouge, IBM World Trade; Sir Arthur Norman, The De la Rue Co.; Dr. Aurelio Peccei, Olivetti; Count Theo Rossi Di Montelera, Martini & Rossi; Evelyn de Rothschild, N.M. Rothschild & Sons; Dermot A. Ryan, Ryan's Tourist Holdings; Nino Rovelli, Societa Italiana Resine; Curt R. Strand, Hilton International; Charles C. Tillinghast Jr., TWA; Hendrik A.C. Van Riemsdijk, Philips' Gloeilampenfabrieken; Eberhard Von Kuenheim, Bayerische Motoren Werke (B.M.W.); Gerrit A. Wagner, Royal Dutch Petroleum; Pierre Waltz, Societe Suisse pour 1'Industrie Horlogere; Dr. Joachim Zahn, Daimler-Benz...