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...then there are the battle cries: "Hey, hey, Derek Bok: throw away your racist stock." "Derek Bok, get the word, this is not Johannesburg." "Hey, hey, ho, ho, there's blood on your portfolio." Bok knows we live in Cambridge, Massachusetts; he also knows what is in Harvard's $2.7 billion endowment and has made sure that Harvard doesn't invest in companies which don't sign the Sullivan principles. Those state that a firm implements dignifying and progressive measures geared toward helping South Africa's Black workers...
...opposed to apartheid, he claimed it was unclear whether or not the presence of American companies in South Africa was a bad thing. Bok's comments in the spring of 1978 that seemed to defend the idea of American investment in South Africa were quoted in newspapers like the Johannesburg Star and the Rand Daily Mail as the official opinion of Harvard University. The student movement for divestiture had accomplished a great many victories. In forcing the Corporation to face up to the responsibilities that come with a $2 billion stock portfolio, it has completed and overturned the essentially amoral...
Stander, skilled in disguises and schooled in police tactics, always spoke softly to terrified tellers. "If one can be polite when threatening someone else with a gun, Stander was," said one victim. Stander drove a yellow 1975 Porsche, rented three posh homes in suburban Johannesburg, and even when on the lam used to jog undetected amid police stakeouts...
...South African public seemed disappointed too. Said an elderly Johannesburg woman: "We were all rooting for him. He had style...
Twenty-one soldiers were killed in the latest incursion, the highest toll for a single South African military maneuver since 1976. The Johannesburg Sunday Express offered a national prayer: "Lord, spare us from victory. The year has begun with another victory in a war we are destined to lose." Botha's disengagement pleased the Reagan Administration, which has been working to effect an overall settlement in the area that would eventually lead to the removal from Angola of Cuba's 26,000 troops and advisers. In recent weeks, U.S. officials have engaged in talks with representatives of both...