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A key reason for Jerry Brown's poor showing in the New York primary was his declared wish to nominate Jesse Jackson as his running mate. This was apparently a crucial factor in the choice of an enormous majority of Jewish voters--90 percent--to vote against him.
For the first time in its seven-year history, Harvard Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid (HRAAA) did not nominate candidates for the Board of Overseers this year.
Acting Executive Director of HRAAA Jan L.Handke offered no explanation of why her groupchose not to nominate candidates this year, butshe said in a written statement yesterday thatHRAAA will "actively consider" nominatingcandidates in future elections.
Any individual or group the nominate candidates by petition. Since 1986, HRAAA has fielded an independent slate of candidates in an effort to force the University to divest of its stock in South Africa, valued at $240 million as of December.
Several HRAAA associates speculated that HRAAA did not nominate any candidates for two reasons--recent po- litical changes in south Africa and the YoungReport which was accepted in the 1989 by both theCorporation and the Board of Overseers.