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...agree with the PALC that Harvard plays a role in the oppression of Black Angolans by the fact of its ownership of 680,000 shares of Gulf stock. Gulf is the sole concessionaire of an oil-rich region of Angola. When liberation forces overran the oil fields in 1961, Gulf was forced to stop its drilling. Big corporations take no chances. Gulf has helped finance the Portuguese army's suppression of the Angolese people because its management desires to keep this profit-making area in the hands of "reliable" white Europeans...
...Gulf is a part of the bloodshed in Angola, Harvard is a part of Gulf. We support PALC's demand that Harvard use its stock leverage to alter Gulf's Angola policy. This would be a major victory, for Harvard has been a crucial pro-management voter in such corporate responsibility proxy fights as Campaign GM. We would propose that as a first demonstration of the concern for the welfare of Black Africans that Bok showed in his Thursday evening statement, he publicly commit Harvard to support for the United Church of Christ's proxy fight for full disclosure...