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SIMPLY PUT, the most effective way for the United States to force reform or any change in South Africa is to threaten and carry out removal of all political, corporate, and economic support for the system. Although Harvard's divestment per se may not swing a particular corporation to withdraw from South Africa, it becomes more potent when combined with the divestiture efforts of other universities, state and Federal institutions and organizations, leading toward the goal of ending all U.S. corporate involvement with the current South African regime...
...civilized society--say, for instance, a society that might be expected to respond to "constructive engagement" or "quiet diplomacy"--reserves the death penalty for crimes which threaten the very foundations of its existence. Urging disinvestment is punishable by death in South Africa. Is there any more telling evidence that divestiture might, just might, strike the match that lights the bonfire...
...disintegrate. Charges were made of unfair distribution of arms which short changed anarchist militia units. The Trotskyites and other groups opposed the conservative economic policies of the regime, and small military clashes were reported. As Stalin's purges got underway in the USSR, the Spanish government began to harass, threaten and even assassinate members of the left revolutionary groups...
Recent actions and proposals by some agencies of the federal government threaten to erode the American tradition of academic freedom. These proposals and actions fall into two broad categories those restricting dissemination of ideas and those restricting the access of foreign scholars to U.S. classrooms and laboratories...
...would also like to add out voices to Mr. Keane and Ms. Klegar's support for continued need-blind admissions. We would not ask for changes in the University's portfolio investments if we felt these changes would be detrimental to the College's. Financial position or would threaten financial aid. Divestiture can be accomplished in such a way as to minimize financial risk to the University. Catherine Schuyler '85. Claude Convisser '85. Members of the Senior Donations Committee of the Endowment for Divestiture...