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...African Liberation Coalition, which raised the Gulf issue last Spring, never saw divestiture of Gulf stock as anything more than a symbolic action. But the PALC organizers were astute enough to understand that symbolic doesn't mean unimportant, and they believed that nationally, the issue of University investment policy was in a momentary logjam. They hoped that Harvard University, by making a solid commitment against colonialism, might be able to break the impasse. Perhaps they thought at the outset of their campaign that Harvard Administrators--feeling some shame for the participation of their country and their University in the destruction...

Author: By David R. Ignatius, | Title: An Innocent Abroad | 10/11/1972 | See Source »

...SEEMS THAT the PALC organizers were wrong about Harvard. Commitment to principle by a University is dismissed in the Farber report as useless symbolic action; students are intimidated by Farber's description of a world in which Gulf or some other foreign oil company will always be at Cabinda and, if the "low-level stalemate" persists, white Portugal will always rule black Angola...

Author: By David R. Ignatius, | Title: An Innocent Abroad | 10/11/1972 | See Source »

...African Liberation Committee (PALC) and Afro, the two groups which led last year's protests, said that they will release a "rebuttal" to Farber's report next week...

Author: By Peter Shapiro, | Title: PALC, Afro to Prepare Rebuttal to Farber Study | 10/7/1972 | See Source »

Last April, protests by PALC and Afro culminated in a week-long occupation of Massachusetts Hall to demand that Harvard sell its 700,000 shares of Gulf stock...

Author: By Peter Shapiro, | Title: PALC, Afro to Prepare Rebuttal to Farber Study | 10/7/1972 | See Source »

...visible groups of 1972. PALC and the Graduate Student Union, are planning long-range programs rather than taking immediate actions...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: Harvard Grinds and Groans Into Year 337 | 9/30/1972 | See Source »

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