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...Corporation's decision last Monday to scrap its proposal to abandon Harvard's automatic ban on investments in banks that make loans to South Africa stemmed directly from a month of organized and loud protest. Members and supporters of the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC) rallied several times in support of the absolute ban; their efforts culminated in a rousing open meeting that helped persuade the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility to oppose unanimously the Corporation's recommendation...
Bradford C. Mank '82, president of the Southern Africa, Solidarity Committee (SASC), said. "If the Corporation doesn't vote to reaffirm the policy, they would clearly show how despicable they are" and that "they are not serious about the question of investment morality...
...SASC, which opposes all loans to South Africa on the grounds that they serve to reinforce a racist government, has organized most of the student opposition to the proposed policy change...
...SASC organized a similar rally in Feburary and supplied many of the speakers at last weeks's ACSR open meeting at which 30 students denounced any policy change before 300 cheering onlookers...
Michael T. Anderson `83 a SASC organizer said yesterday the committee expects 50 to 75 people at the picketing, which he said would help preserve "momentum from the open meeting...