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...students did vote to strike about it a couple of hours before Bok's statement came out. "Many people believe that the United States is engaging in inhuman acts in bombing North Vietnam," Bok said squarely. With that vexation out of the way, Bok went on to reject PALC's demand for divestiture. Divesting "would have been easy and gained an obvious popularity in some quarters," Bok explained, but Harvard had nevertheless courageously decided "not to turn away from the problems of black Angolans," because "this course would accomplish nothing to help those who are oppressed...
...Harvard send Stephen B. Farber '63, his special assistant, to bring back a report and cheer Angola up even more. As if that still wasn't enough, Bok announced that he was personally offended by American policies which indirectly strengthened Portugal's grip on its colonies, and appealed to PALC to "join with me in finding a co-operative way of calling attention to the wrongs of Angola...
NATURALLY, with PALC still inside Mass Hall, a few skeptics suspected that Bok's anguish over the wrongs of Angola and his determination to call attention to them were partly a matter of expediency. But nothing could have been further from the truth--for even today, more than two years later, Bok still has never taken the statement back. Of course, he still hasn't found an ideal way of fulfilling it, either. It might have seemed as though last month's coup by Portuguese officers displeased with their country's colonial policy, followed by widely-publicized continuing ferment...
...freshman year, elements of PALC and AFRO took over the offices of President Bok. Due to the fact I was doing an all-nighter, I was able to be a witness to all the developments from the very beginning (somewhere I have a tape recording of the first beckonings for help and aid broadcasted from Massachusetts Hall). As an impressionable freshman, I thought that finally, the "liberality" of Harvard-including its students-was to be demonstrated...
This breath-taking policy change, however, was lost in the fray over the specifics of the Corporation's decision, followed as it was a scant 12 hours later by the Mass Hall takeover. Instead of endorsing the PALC-Afro divestiture proposal, the Corporation announced its own strategy: it had already pressured Gulf to make the disclosure called for in the proxy motion, and it would send an adviser to Africa to obtain first hand information on the specifics of Gulf's role there. It also asked Gulf to set forth a plan for the Corporation's further improving its employment...