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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...open letter to President...
...interesting idea has emerged from the debate on divestiture, Mr. President, the idea that excellence in research and teaching depends on the exploitation of black South Africans, that the financial costs of divestiture might impair what you termed in your open letter of March 9 our "special mission" in "the discovery and transmission of knowledge." Now this notion will not surprise those radical critics of capitalism who have long argued the dependence of corporate profits on racism and imperialism. It is more surprising to hear this argument from more respectable sources, indeed from the very establishment itself...
...President, let me speak frankly. I could accept your argument for political neutrality more easily if our teaching and research really gave the weight to a "continuing critique" of our society that your open letter suggests...
...open letter, President Bok's argument is presented as if it were a deductively logical discourse accurately representing the reality of the Harvard community's South Africa dilemma. Let us look first to the argument's, underlying assumptions, second, to its logic, and finally, to the choice it represents...
...that from the point of view of direct economic leverage, the only leverage is the one that comes back to us. I share, and this is a personal view. I share the reservations about the use of economic leverage that were expressed in President Bok's recent open letter to the Harvard community. It is an act which is costly to Harvard, and while I would be happy to answer questions about the assessment of the costs of this policy, suffice it to say that we are talking about excluding, as a matter of policy, a set of companies which...