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SASC has frequently compared South Africa with Nazi Germany, Lichtman says...
SASC is confused about its argument for divestment, says Lichtman...
...Lichtman should not confuse his own confusion for SASC's. In 1984 the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility, (which President Bok had created to advise the Harvard Corporation), recommended to that body that Harvard totally divest. Their argument, which SASC shares, Lichtman may find in The Harvard Crimson of May 11, 1984. The committee comments: "It should be noted that while U.S. firms employ less that I percent of the Black work force in South Africa and accounts for only 17 percent of foreign investments there, they dominate several strategic sectors: energy, computers, motor vehicles and mining. In a critical...
...Lichtman says that moral and practical motivations are "mutually exclusive...
SASC, says Lichtman, is "morally inconsistent" because it does not "favor and agitate for divestment from other regimes...