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April-June 1986: The Shantytown...
...part of it is just his natural inclination. Part of it, of course, is (that he is) not very familiar in total with our business." As for charges that GM gives its executives excessive perks, Smith retorted that Perot's office at EDS in Dallas "makes mine look like shantytown. He has a Gilbert Stuart painting hanging on the wall. Nobody runs around saying, 'Get rid of Ross's office...
...events such as the total divestments by the University of California and Washington State, recent congressional economic sanctions and the intensifying struggle within South Africa itself. The recent announcement of Harvard's divestment of $198.7 million came on the heels of a string of successful divestment actions including the shantytown, numerous demonstrations, the election of a prodivestment candidate to the board of overseers and finally, the events sponsored by the 350th coalition which culminated in preventing a black-tie dinner being held for George Shultz...
Recent activities by divestment activists haveincluded: the election of pro-divestment candidateto the Harvard Board of Overseers, one of theUniversity's two governing bodies; a protest thatforced the cancellation of the gala 350th dinnerin Memorial Hall early last month; and theconstruction last spring of a shantytown inHarvard Yard...
...dressed in a threadbare overcoat and a small boy in rags stand in a sewage-clogged shantytown street just outside Luanda. The man has no right leg, the boy no left. As the boy hammers out a rhythm with a stick on a battered tin can, the man begins to swing his shortened limb in time to the beat. Others join in. Some waggle truncated arms, others hop on withered stumps. Soon nearly 100 cripples are shaking their mutilated bodies to the beat of the weird tin drum...