Word: panning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pan-African Liberation Committee (PALC) also planned a protest over Harvard's holdings of $680,000 worth of Gulf Oil Corporation stock, which was to include a mass walk-out by black students...
Harvard's decision to retain its 683,000 shares in Gulf, after the Pan African Liberation Committee (PALC) had reasonably appealed to the University for a publicly announced sale, was doubly irresponsible. For it came with a refusal even to cast a vote of no confidence in the management of Gulf at the annual stockholders' meeting. Instead, the Corporation made a deal with Gulf to abstain from voting for the disclosure of information on Gulf's operations in Angola in return for a voluntary yielding of that information...
...shares, three-tenths of one per cent, of the company, worth about $18.5 million, making it the largest University stockholder. The University this year faced both a proxy battle over certain disclosure resolutions proposed by the Gulf Angola Project and the demand of a black student group called the Pan-African Liberation Committee that Harvard sell its Gulf stock as a protest against Portuguese colonialism. This demand gained wide student support (including that of The Crimson), it introduced a new word .."divestiture".. into radical rhetoric, and eventually led to the occupation of Massachusetts Hall for a week. Until the PALC...
...blacks--members of Harvard-Radcliffe Afro and the Pan African Liberation Committee--staged the six-day occupation to dramatize their demands that Harvard divest itself of 670,000 shares of Gulf Oil stock...
Mitchell, a senior and three-year varsity oarsman, is also well equipped, both in talent and experience. Last summer he rowed on the National Eight that competed in the Pan American games. Mitchell has been rowing for four years, and last fall, paired with Sawyier to sweep the pairs competition in the Head of the Charles...