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...Harvard Corporations' decision on its South Africa investments, bear clear witness that the Harvard community will not accept that reprehensible decision. The United Front acted swiftly and decisively to organize a series of antiapartheid demonstrations, and the group deserves high praise for marshalling impressive and peaceful demonstrations, the largest at Harvard in five years...
Both the AAU and the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) are playing the lead role in lobbying for the universities' position on research monies. The NACUBO has formed a committee of the 100 largest research institutions in the country to specifically attack this problem on Capitol Hill and elsewhere in Washington...
President Bok sent a letter of protest to the South African ambassador following the arrest of Percy P. Qoboza, a former Nieman Fellow and editor of The World, South Africa's largest black-language newspaper until it was banned last year. Bok called Qoboza's incarceration, which was part of a crackdown on black activists within that country, "a travesty of justice under normal civilized conditions;" he did not, however, recommend that the Corporation take any action to back up what he said was only a personal protest. "It's a very complex issue," Bok explained...
...Swedish operation; half of the shares of the new Norwegian branch will be sold to the public, with the rest going to the Norwegian government, which is expected to become the single biggest shareholder in the binational corporation, ahead of even the Swedish pension fund, now Volvo's largest owner...
...Until the present moment, he has been able to reinvest only $300 million, leaving $700 million to go. He bought 12% of the shares of the U.S.'s W.R. Grace Co. (petrochemicals, real estate, restaurants) for $130 million, last month acquired control of West Germany's second largest insurance company for $100 million, and added $70 million to the capital of his conglomerate...