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...government to extend full political rights to the black South African majority have deeply troubled individuals and institutions everywhere and made them consider how they should respond to such cruelty and repression. Here at Harvard, within the next two weeks, the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility will issue a progress report and reply to several recommendations from the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility will issue a progress report and reply to several recommendations from the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility suggesting further steps for Harvard to take as a responsible investor. In advance of this statement, I would like...
...adhere to the Sullivan principles. Others have announced specific steps to improve their Sullivan performance rating and improve the conditions of their black employees. Seven firms with which we were actively corresponding have either sold their South African operations or announced their intention to do so. Since our last progress report, two firms manifested sufficient intransigence in their communications with the University that we decided to sell their stock in accordance with a long established policy...
These changes have also rendered the traditional campaign tome largely obsolete. With tempestuous demographic and geographic upheavals in progress--i.e. Jesse Jackson, Gary Hart, the fundamentalist Right, the Sun Belt majority--campaigns today are roughly analogous to surfing. Catch your demographic wave and hang on for the ride. The story of the Hart campaign was not how he won the New Hampshire primary, but how he failed to take advantage of the electoral groundswell in his favor. The story of Alan Cranston's failure was not his ridiculous one-note (later two-note) campaign, but the utter lack...
...seemed to be adjusting smoothly to his new artificial heart. Within days after a Jarvik-7 pump was implanted in his chest late in August, the 25-year-old Phoenix assistant grocery manager was eating solid food, walking with help and doing leg and arm exercises. Drummond's steady progress seemed to augur well for the next phase of his treatment: a second operation, to remove the mechanical device, which had been implanted only as a stopgap measure, and to replace it with a human donor heart...
...African government a "reformist administration" and contended that the segregation of public accommodations in South Africa "has all been eliminated." White House Spokesman Larry Speakes later conceded that the President should have said that "some" rather than "all" accommodations have been integrated. That still would have suggested more racial progress than South Africa can claim...