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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...should come as a surprise to no one that a Harvard portfolio company has played a key role in bolstering South Africa's illegal presence in Namibia. According to its most recently published reports, Harvard owns more than $2.5 million worth of shares in AMAX, Inc., the U.S. mining multinational. AMAX, in turn, owns one-third of Tsumeb Corporation, the copper mining company that employs more African labor in Namibia than any other firm. In a recent annual report, AMAX bragged that Tsumeb has finally trained a few of its 5000 African workers to fill such semi-skilled posts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMAX: Harvard's Illegal Company | 9/27/1978 | See Source »

DURING THE SUMMER months, the American press was filled with premature praise for the role of Western diplomacy in bringing about the tentative accord between SWAPO and South Africa. Lost amidst all the kudos was a frank discussion of the West's ongoing undermining of U.N. efforts to force South Africa to leave the territory it illegally occupies...

Author: By Jonathan D. Ratner, | Title: Namibia: A Trust Betrayed | 9/27/1978 | See Source »

...Portuguese government, bent on freeing its colonial possessions, did not fall over itself thanking the U.S. for its support. And, by isolating itself from the national liberation movements during the pre-independence period in Angola, the U.S. eliminated its chances of playing a constructive mediating role among the various political factions to help bring Angola toward independence through a negotiated, democratic transition. Instead, the U.S. attempted to regain a political foothold in Angola through covert support of the poorly organized, politically suspect FLNA and UNITA forces...

Author: By Jonathan D. Ratner, | Title: Namibia: A Trust Betrayed | 9/27/1978 | See Source »

Jeff Mayersohn '73, a member of the SYL, said yesterday his group hopes to force Huntington to leave Harvard by publicizing his role in the United States foreign policy and in the Vietnam...

Author: By Maxwell Gould, | Title: Protesters Demonstrate Against Huntington's Return to Harvard | 9/27/1978 | See Source »

...demonstrators, denouncing Huntington's role in the formation of the U.S.'s "forced-draft urbanization" policy in Vietnam, chanted slogans such as "Send Huntington to Hanoi, try him by his victims...

Author: By Maxwell Gould, | Title: Protesters Demonstrate Against Huntington's Return to Harvard | 9/27/1978 | See Source »

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