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...With regard to companies doing less than 50% of their business in South Africa, Harvard will exercise its rights as a shareholder by voting in favor of resolutions that: a) encourage the use of enlightened employment practices and affirmative actions designed to improve the skills, opportunities, and the quality of life for the black majority of South Africa; b) encourage reasonable disclosure of information that is not already available and that is necessary in order for shareholders to exercise judgment with regard to the company's practices; c) call for withdrawal of the company entirely from South Africa, but only...
...With regard to companies doing less that 50% of their business in South Africa, Harvard will consider divestiture for ethical reasons only when the company has substantially failed to implement reasonable ethical standards, defined as the Sullivan Principles or equivalent policies, when "persistent efforts over a substantial period of time to persuade the company to change its policies have demonstrably failed," and where there is clearly no hope for improvement...
...writing in regard to your May 1st article entitled "Council Debates Rugby Grant, Heckling Policy." Although I have many concerns regarding the misrepresentation of the events of the meeting. I will confine my remarks to the quote attributed to me by Ms. Engelmayer. To the best of my recollection, the actual words are correct, but the context in which she places them completely distort my viewpoint. She writes that...
...legislation that would make the most profound change in the U.S. economy would be the elimination of the withholding tax [ECONOMY & BUSINESS, April 16]. Most taxpayers think of take-home pay as their income and regard their withheld tax money, which they never see, as not their own. If we all had to sit down and go through the bloodletting of writing a check to the IRS once a year, we would no longer joke about $9,000 screws for fighter planes...
...Soviet Union. Fifty-two Soviet army divisions sit along China's northern frontier. China shares with the U.S. a mistrust of Moscow's international designs, but its leaders bridle when U.S. strategy seems to regard them primarily as a strategic foil to the Soviets. Indeed, last week Moscow announced that First Deputy Prime Minister Ivan Arkhipov will make an official trip to China in mid-May; he will be the highest-ranking Kremlin visitor since the early 1960s. Moreover, Peking is seeking to become the Middle Kingdom in modern geopolitical terms, a genuinely nonaligned state...