Word: recommendations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...result of the journey, McGinn said that he will discuss three major points today. First of all, he will recommend that the United States appropriate $30 million to help rebuild the national university which has been ravaged and destroyed ever since the army closed it down three years...
McGinn said that he will also recommend that the United States demand that the El Salvadoran government provide charges for all the political prisoners, many of whom have been in jail for several months without any charges being pressed...
...Solidarity Committee (SASC), founded in November of that year SASC managed to organize a tenuous coalition of disparate minority and political groups into the United Front, and led them through a series of mass rallies and demonstrations that culminated just before reading period. SASC called on the ACSR to recommend to the Corporation that it sell stocks in banks making loans to the South African government, support shareholder resolutions calling for complete corporate withdrawal, and issue a clear, public statement on its investment policies...
Emboldened by their success, student activists asked for another open meeting of the ACSR this spring, at which they asked it to recommend to the Corporation to sell the stock of any companies in its portfolio with ties to South Africa. Their pleas apparently had some impact on the advisory body. For the first time even, the ACSR voted on a resolution recommending complete divestiture, and narrowly defeated it by a vote of 6 to 5, with one abstention. The abstaining member then changed his vote, bringing it to an even 6 to 6 split. The resolution did not pass...
...debates over the South African issue, the Committee often divided along the lines that split the group over many of the shareholder resolutions. The four student members and one professor formed something of a progressive block, tending to recommend votes against management on shareholder resolutions and to urge divestiture from all companies operating in South Africa. This group, joined by one or two liberal alumni, and aided by the absence of two or three conservative Committee members, often carried a majority of the Committee in favor of socially responsible shareholder resolutions. On the other side of many shareholder resolutions...