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Divestiture did not become an issue in its own right until 1972, when 30 Black students, members of the Harvard-based Pan-African Liberation Committee, occupied the administrative offices in Massachusetts Hall in an attempt to force Harvard to sell $21 million worth of stock in the Gulf Oil Company. The students argued that Gulf, which was conducting operations in the then-Portuguese colony of Angola, directly supported the colonization of Africans by paying taxes to the white regime there. The demonstrators vacated the building a week later after the University threatened to file criminal charges. While President Bok refused...
Divestiture did not become an issue in its own right until 1972, when 30 Black students, members of the Harvard-based Pan-African Liberation Committee, occupied the administrative offices in Massachusetts Hall in an attempt to force Harvard to sell $21 million worth of stock in the Gulf Oil Company. The students argued that Gulf, which was conducting operations in the then-Portuguese colony of Angola, directly supported the colonization of Africans by paying taxes to the white regime there. The demonstrators vacated the building a week later after the University threatened to file criminal charges. While President Bok refused...
...built Grand Hotel, where dignitaries were quartered, only 16 of Africa's heads of state were present. That was less than half the necessary O.A.U. quorum of 34 leaders. Among the decisions that the O.A.U. could not make: the scheduled passing on of the coveted chairmanship of the Pan-African body to Gaddafi, who craves the status and respect ability that the title confers...
Last month marked the tenth anniversary of the University's most recent student occupation and one of the most tumultuous fortnights in Harvard's history. The Mass Hall takeover--carried out by the Pan-African Liberation Committee (PALC)--and the Corporation move that precipitated it were only the most salient events in a period when banner headlines were the norm and vocal activism a way of life. Consider the following events, some related, others one-shot happenings emblematic of a turbulent...
...many countries appear reluctant to do so because they do not wish to give even tacit approval to a Gadaffi takeover. The Organization of African Unity has called on Libya to withdraw its troops so that an agreement worked out in 1979, calling for fresh elections supervised by a pan-African peacekeeping force, can be carried...