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Whereas President Clinton's visit the evening before involved more than 200 security agents and a flashy 50 car cavalcade, Mandela was protected by just under three dozen federal, state and local officers...
...Mandela's motorcade was small--the trip from Boston's Logan International airport to Harvard Square took just over 12 minutes...
...Mandela was far enough from the crowd to distract the aim of a potential assassin...
...attended the Convocation for Nelson Mandela's honorary degree Friday, and I was struck by Harvard's apparent loss of institutional memory regarding the South African struggle. I am writing to jog that memory...
After I graduated, a number of alumni withheld contributions from Harvard and put them in an escrow fund until divestiture occurred (which turned out to be in 1990, coincidentally the year Mandela was freed and well after the crucial struggles had happened). We also petitioned to elect candidates supporting divestiture, among other things, to the Board of Overseers, and successfully elected both Gay Seidman '78, first woman president of The Crimson and an SASC activist, and Archbishop Desmond Tutu to the Overseers, much against Harvard's wishes...