Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ecstatic," said Leslie Sullivan, who started the union organizing drive 17 years ago in the medical area but left the campaign in 1981. "I always knew it could be done...
Last year, the CCSR voted not to require companies to divest from South Africa if they adhered to the Sullivan principles and did not provide "strategic supplies" such as oil and weapons to the South African government, said Professor Lance Liebman. who is currently serving as chairman of the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR...
Leibman said that this year, the ACSR will focus on how the University should respond to "new developments" in South Africa--including press restrictions and military crackdowns--as well as Reverend Sullivan's repudiation of the principles that bear his name...
...June of last year, Sullivan said that the policy of "constructive engagement" in South Africa, which his principles seemed to endorse, had failed. He has since called for a complete economic boycott of South Africa...
Alumni active in the divestment movement criticized Harvard's policy of continued investment in companies doing business in South Africa. "It's particularly shameful for Harvard to invest in [Sullivan's] name for so many years, and then when he has the courage to change his views, [for Harvard] to say that he is wrong," said Dorothee E. Benz '87, executive director of Alumni Against Apartheid...