Word: racists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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HARVARD'S ISN'T the only American university campus beset by protests against the apartheid regime in South Africa. At Williams College, students recently staged a hunger strike to dramatize their opposition the school's investments in companies operating in the racist state Responding to student outcry, the University of Michigan has actually agreed to partial divestiture from such firms What is perhaps less well known is that students at universities outside the U S have began to register their disapproval as well...
...risk no less than that of the divestiture fasters. This risk relates to the possible loss of profits from lucrative investments in South Africa. The Harvard administration also risks the loss of friends among the American power elites who, through either outright sympathy with South Africa's fascist and racist ways or just plain callous indifference, will sever connections with a Harvard that risks some of its wealth in order to save its soul. We will forever be ashamed of a Harvard that defines its self-interest so callously that it is incapable of matching the moral threat of divestiture...
...Runner Mondale, the old signs of vacillation returned. Trade Commissioner William Brock first put the heat on by declaring that Mondale was playing a dangerous game in his sharp attacks on the Japanese. Congressman Norman Mineta, a California Democrat, complained privately to Mondale that he thought the attacks were racist...
...Rose Mungon, spreading Washington pamphlets on the city's affluent take front. Epton's campaign was "the most racist in history...
When that happens, or when the United Nations determines that South Africa's racist apartheid government is no longer a cause for international concern and lifts its 1976 call for corporate divestiture, the money in the account will go to Harvard. If neither condition is met after 20 years--as seems likely--the funds will go to a charity with no ties to Harvard. In the meantime, the money will remain outside Harvard's reach, in the custody of the Council's treasurer...