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...sudden switch to good-guy tactics did not sway the Resistance, which directs some 10,000 contras who are trying to overthrow the Marxist-led regime. Meeting in the Dominican Republic, the organization's 54-member Assembly, which considers itself Nicaragua's government-in-exile, elected a new seven-man directorate. Among its members: former Colonel Enrique Bermudez, 56, the contras' commander in chief since 1981. The inclusion of Bermudez, who served in the National Guard of the dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle, represents a major victory for hard-liners within the Resistance who believe that the Sandinistas can be dislodged...
...proposal asking Harvard to divest from its stocks in all companies doing business in South Africa reached the floor of the Board in December, was diverted to a committee meeting in February, and prompted the creation of an unprecedented joint panel composed of overseers and members of the seven-man Corporation in April. The Board has yet to vote on the proposal itself...
Eight activists from the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC) yesterday visited companies in downtown Boston on an unsuccessful search for Robert G. Stone, Jr. '45, a member of Harvard's seven-man Corporation, which controls the University's investment policy...
...Governance: Harvard's governance structure concentrates all power in the hands of Bok and the seven-man Corporation. The Board of Overseers--the representative of the alumni--is relegated to filling visiting committees, while students have no say in policy whatsoever...
Overseers President Samuel C. Butler '51 said that the full Board would vote on a resolution to create a joint committee with the seven-man Corporation, which controls Harvard's investment portfolio...