Word: letterings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Before their reunion this June members of the class of '69 will receive a letter from three classmates--including two University faculty members--urging them not to contribute to Harvard until the University publicly supports corporate withdrawal from South Africa and takes steps toward divesting of its South Africa related investments...
...spurious facade of respectibility for Harvard, it is unenforceable and helps no one, only embittering relations between the intelligence services and academia. A suitable compromise, however, between the agency and the university over telling the American student that his name is being considered is surely impossible. An anonymous letter should be sent by the professor engaged in the covert recruiting to the student he believes suitable for CIA work, asking for an affirmative reply to be returned to a post office box if the student wishes his name to be forwarded. In this way, the student's name should...
...leftist ways. According to one U.S. expert in the area, "Islam has proved to be the major unifying theme for the rebels." Many of them have moved to armed camps in Pakistan. Taraki has tried to highlight his own credentials as a good Muslim; recently the government publicized a letter of support from a group of Soviet Muslims across the border. But a number of mullahs have been arrested for speaking out against the government in the mosques, and some Iranian ayatullahs have called for support for the Afghan rebels...
...companies doing business in South Africa. The universities of Massachusetts and Wisconsin, among others, have responded to student demands that such stock be sold to protest South Africa's apartheid policies, while debate over the issue has caused demonstrations at Princeton, Stanford and Columbia. But in an open letter to students last week, Harvard President Derek Bok presented his university's objections to divestiture...
However, Karl W. Deutsch, Stansfield Professor of International Peace, said yesterday that Bok's letter "erroneously treats divestiture as an all or no business...