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Harvard's current policy, if pressed resolutely, is clearly superior to complete divestiture. It protects the incredibly and security of the University as an instruction of education and research. Without contradicting this prime mandate, it also holds out a measure of hope for Blacks and "coloreds" in South Africa to again basic workplace dignity, economic parity, and eventual political justice. While these goals may be only marginally furthered by concerned American involvement. They will not be furthered at all by a fruitless and pious and spasm of divestiture by precisely those American institutions which South Africa's Nationalist government would...

Author: By --jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Harvard's Role | 2/27/1985 | See Source »

Verne W. Vance Jr. '54, who represents Harvard in its legal skirmishes involving the $350 million Medical Area Total Energy Plant (MATEP), said the University will file a response to the City of Brookline's Suffolk County Superior Court appeal by the end of this week...

Author: By Charles C. Matthews, | Title: University Denounces Power Plant Complaint | 2/27/1985 | See Source »

Last September the Superior Court of Justice in La Paz sentenced Suarez in absentia to 15 years in prison on drug-related charges. Catching him may not be easy, however. Earlier that year, Suarez had sent a small fleet of private planes in and out of Bolivian airports to ferry 250 guests to the wedding of his daughter Headi. Even as the revelers, some of them Bolivian dignitaries, danced through the night to the music of an orchestra flown in for the occasion, drug-enforcement agents were searching for Suarez. They had not been invited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Self-Styled Robin Hood | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

...Fuhrer's diaries, written between 1932 and 1945. The diaries, Heidemann said, were rescued by farmers after a plane carrying Hitler's personal effects crashed near Dresden in the last days of World War II. Although the flamboyant Heidemann was known to be excessively preoccupied with Nazi memorabilia, his superior, Thomas Walde, took Heidemann's supposed find very seriously. Presumably in order to minimize the risk of a leak, Walde bypassed Stern's top editors and took the information upstairs to Wilfried Sorge, assistant director of Gruner & Jahr, and Jan Hensmann, a member of the board. In the months that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Judging the Hoax That Failed | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

...tightened the reins on critics, the government purged the Interior Ministry. Government Spokesman Urban said that General Zenon Platek, the immediate superior of the four men convicted at Toruan, would remain suspended from duty and that his department would be broken up. Urban announced the suspension of Warsaw Police Colonel Leszek Wolski, who had allegedly known in advance of the Popieluszko plot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland New Threats | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

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