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...member of SASC, and of the Open University (between which there is a distinction), I wish to answer some to the points Lichtman raises...
...SASC has frequently compared South Africa with Nazi Germany, Lichtman says...
...SASC has never issued any leaflets or press statements making such an equation. But while South African troops drive through townships at random with guns blazing, and while entire families are transported to bantustans where there is no rain, jobs, or health care, and while the Bushmen are dying in forced migration from the Namib Desert, then perhaps recognizing the genocideal aspect of apartheid and comparing it to German fascism is not so unreasonable...
...SASC is confused about its argument for divestment, says Lichtman...
Lichtman should not confuse his own confusion for SASC's. In 1984 the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility, (which President Bok had created to advise the Harvard Corporation), recommended to that body that Harvard totally divest. Their argument, which SASC shares, Lichtman may find in The Harvard Crimson of May 11, 1984. The committee comments: "It should be noted that while U.S. firms employ less that I percent of the Black work force in South Africa and accounts for only 17 percent of foreign investments there, they dominate several strategic sectors: energy, computers, motor vehicles and mining. In a critical...