Word: statements
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...misdemeanor. This story took up only one column on page three of The Globe, under the headline "Guatemalan Family Flees." The Boston Herald American didn't carry the story at all. After pressure from a state representative and a lawyer from the Civil Liberties Union, Mayor White issued a statement "deploring" violence and reminding protesters that "such incidents do not occur everyday...
...conclude, Mr. President, with a statement of my own views on the specific question of divestiture. I have heard it said that divestiture is but a gesture, an empty statement. Gestures are not to be dismissed as merely symbolic. We live by symbols and the symbolic value of this university's collective gestures is orders of magnitude greater than the value of individual gestures we might make. We can choose, Mr. President, collective silence that implies either collective consent or collective indifference. Or we can take a stand that publicizes our collective opposition to the institutional racism of apartheid. Stephen...
...After divesting of the three stocks under consideration and the reinterpretation of the current policy we stipulate that no securities in any company having operations in South Africa will be purchased," the trustees' statement said...
...investing in South Africa we're making a political and moral statement, and by divesting we're doing the same." John S. Berman. The student representative to CHOIR, said yesterday. He added that the guidelines in the investment policy presented to Standish, Ayer and Woods were "very vague...
...recent statement by several faculty members and the South African Solidarity Committee suggests the costs to Harvard of divesting holdings in companies operating in South Africa may be far less than Harvard has estimated...