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...PALC demanded that Harvard divest itself of its Gulf stock and issue a public statement condemning the company. In this way, they hoped to trigger a series of similar divestitures nationwide, and force Gulf out of southern Africa...

Author: By Daniel Swanson, | Title: Radicals Counter Traditional Orientation | 9/18/1972 | See Source »

When the dispute began, few students could even locate Angola on a map. But the PALC organizers used a carefully orchestrated series of tactics to rally support for their cause...

Author: By Daniel Swanson, | Title: Radicals Counter Traditional Orientation | 9/18/1972 | See Source »

...attention and support from Afro and the Harvard black community, and then from the white liberal majority. In perhaps their most novel ploy, the blacks early one March morning implanted 500 black crosses in the middle of the Yard to commemorate blacks killed in Africa by Portuguese colonial armies. PALC and Afro supporters spent the day explaining the purpose of the crosses to curious passers-by and gathering petition signatures in support of their position...

Author: By Daniel Swanson, | Title: Radicals Counter Traditional Orientation | 9/18/1972 | See Source »

Since Harvard has not divested the Gulf stock. PALC and Afro plan to continue the campaign this year. They are waiting until later this month, when Stephen B. Farber '63, special assistant to President Bok, will make public a report on his summer fact-finding mission to Angola. The issue remains one to watch in coming months...

Author: By Daniel Swanson, | Title: Radicals Counter Traditional Orientation | 9/18/1972 | See Source »

White radical groups--students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and the Cambridge New American Movement (NAM)--will necessarily follow a scenario similar to PALC and Afro if their proselytizing efforts are to affect large numbers of students...

Author: By Daniel Swanson, | Title: Radicals Counter Traditional Orientation | 9/18/1972 | See Source »

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