Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
...students, who said Stone has not answered their telephone calls or letters, visited the investment counseling firm of Scudder, Stevens and Clark, whose Board of Directors includes Stone, and the North American Management Corporation, which is partly owned by Stone's brother, David B. Stone...
SASC leaders said Stone's membership in the Corporation and his position on the board of the investment firm create a conflict of interest when the Harvard body considers divestment issues. Because Scudder, Stevens and Clark has investments in companies that do business with South Africa the students said Stone could not impartially decide whether Harvard should divest...
Employees at the Landmark building on Federal Street, where Scudder, Stevens and Clark has one of its Boston offices, told the students they could not contact Robert Stone and suggested that the protesters write to him at his office in New York City. They said Stone does not deal directly with the company's Boston office because he is a director of its New York-based international division...
...angry. Palestinians flew black flags and crowded the mosques to read commemorative phrases from the Koran. Still, tensions resulted in five deaths, making last Saturday's total death toll of at least twelve the highest daily count since the Palestinian uprisings began last December. Confronted by growing demonstrations and stone-throwing youths, the Israeli army imposed curfews on eight more refugee camps...