Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effort to expose students to other societies and cultures presents problems of a different kind. Since the original report on General Education first appeared, America's role in the world has changed from one of detachment to one of interdependence and permanent involvement. Harvard students are almost certain to spend a portion of their lives working, living and traveling abroad, or engaged in some sort of active endeavor involving other societies and cultures...
...report's conclusions provide even less encouragement for the people who would like to believe that U.S. banks, by helping foster prosperity in the South African economy, are indirectly improving the conditions of South African non-whites...
...firms with especially poor records on racial policies would not reply to these queries. In fact, only about 30 per cent of the firms responded. Of that 30 per cent, some gave very incomplete and sketchy answers, and even among the companies that supplied sufficient documentation and detail, the report states there is "little evidence that U.S. firms adopted a socially conscious policy of avoiding support of the South African government or its apartheid policies," adding, "American business support of African trade unions appears to be little more than lip service...
...Clark report recommends the adoption of a policy "to actively discourage American foreign investment in South Africa," and to work within the apartheid system to bring about changes in racial policies. It urges the denial of tax credits to U.S. firms in South Africa not actively striving to improve the lot of its non-white workers, the end of export-import bank guarantees of U.S. bank loans to the South African government, and the curtailment of Commerce Department activities directly or indirectly helping American firms choosing to operate in South Africa...
...destroying most of the remaining justifications for the presence of U.S. corporations in South Africa, the Clark subcommittee further substantiates the need for a significant change in America's economic policy towards South Africa. While the subcommittee itself stopped short of recommending such changes in its report, it provided an invaluable aid to the anti-apartheid cause. When the Harvard Corporation decides on its own policy towards investments in firms operating in South Africa, it should keep in mind that the Clark subcommittee has already debunked many of the traditional myths surrounding the beneficial role of U.S. companies under apartheid...