Word: southern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mobil subsidiary in South Africa runs a refinery near Durban; another handles marketing. Mobil recently bought 32.9 per cent of a lubricating-oil refinery. It is prospecting for off-shore oil. There is evidence that Mobil South Africa has exported oil to Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), breaking U.N. sanctions that are binding on U.S. companies...
Caltex is owned jointly by Texaco and Standard Oil of California. It operates a refinery in Cape Town, and markets petroleum products throughout the country. It also owns shares in two Southern Rhodesian marketing and refining companies. Caltex employs about 2000 workers in South Africa, about a third of them black. The average African wage in 1972 was $139 a month; the minimum...
There is not enough space here to deal with the activities in South Africa of all companies linked with Harvard, but three more may briefly be mentioned. Union Carbide was long noted for breaking mandatory sanctions on Southern Rhodesia by importing chrome from there. The U.S. government finally made this illegal in 1976, but Union Carbide now refines chrome in South Africa and ships it to the U.S. from there. Where that plant's ore originates is problematical. AMAX has invested in one of the largest Namibian mining companies, Tsumeb, together with other American and South African companies, Falconbridge...
...almost twice the average rate of profit in the U.S. Realizing this, black organizations have long called for a total boycott of South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia. The wages foreign investors pay South African blacks are so low, and the aid they give the apartheid regimes so great, that southern Africans fighting for freedom prefer to forego the small benefits of the firms' presence. Steve Biko, the South African leader who died recently in prison, called for the with-drawal of U.S. firms; the ANC, South African student organizations and independent African trade unions, as well as the Namibian...
Samaklis's Tiger teammates relinquished their first round lead as the University of Virginia won the team crown, while Southern Connecticut State College came from well back in the pack to finish a surprising second...