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...civil rights activists, comparing investment in South Africa with investment in Nazi Germany, called on Bok and Harvard to lead the way in the fight against the white minority-ruled. South African governments completely divesting...
Outside Weimar, near a large Soviet military base, the former Nazi concentration camp of Buchenwald lies on the slopes of the Ettersberg, a desolate memorial to the more than 50,000 prisoners of war, Jews, Slavs, gypsies, political dissidents and other "undesirables" who died there. Two shrunken heads are on display in a glass case, along with a tiny lampshade made of human skin. Vintage loudspeakers, crudely wired to the SS barracks, are silent today, but more than 40 years ago they crackled with symphonic music...
...year-old boy was taken from his home in Sighet, Hungary, and sent to a Nazi death camp. This spring, after a joint resolution of Congress, President Reagan will present him with a gold medal at the White House "in recognition of his humanitarian efforts and outstanding contributions to world literature and human rights...
...awarded the Games to Sarajevo in 1978, the town had a third-rate mountain with a few lifts for recreational skiers and no ice rink at all. They built two rinks and a bobsled run. They also cut a road up a mountain previously traversed only by Tito's Nazi-fighting partisans, and they built hotels, cross-country ski trails and a network of chair lifts to newly hacked-out downhill and slalom courses. They did it all for $125 million and produced a tidy, if not quite Los Angeles-size profit of $10 million...
...Jesse L. Jackson, comparing South Africa to Nazi Germany, yesterday said Harvard students have a "moral duty" to demand that the University divest of its holdings in companies with South African operations...