Word: withdraw
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hence, the moral of Mobil's tale clearly emerges: "Forcing American companies to withdraw would end their constructive role." The constructive role of corporations in bringing about reform, of course, lies in their ability to pressure the government. By running ads in South African newspapers urging equal citizenship, they let the Botha regime know that they are mad as hell about apartheid and won't take it any longer. Well, at least not for too much longer...
However, if these corporations were to withdraw their South African investments, they would lose their ability to pressure South Africa's government, and heaven knows how slow the pace of reform would be without American corporations standing over South Africa, threatening to divest...
...committee, which had not heard a case for 10 years, this month admonished 11 students for their participation in a sit-in at 17 Quincy St. and gave suspended requirements to withdraw to 10 protesters involved in a blockade-turned-scuffle at Lowell House. Non-voting student observers took part in the proceedings and are expected to aid in the faculty review...
...Leaders of SASC, such as Evan Grossman and Damon Silvers, broke the declared boycott of the CRR, testified before the committee and got off scot free for their actions at Lowell House. At the same time regular SASC members who honored the boycott were given suspended requirements to withdraw...
...spring anti-apartheid protests--the April 24 sit-in at the 17 Quincy St. headquarters of Harvard's governing boards and the May 2 blockade of a South African diplomat in the Lowell House Junior Common Room. The CRR yesterday served 10 students with a suspended requirement to withdraw from the University for their actions at Lowell House, and formally admonshed the 11 students charged with participation in the 17 Quincy St. sit-in. NAME PUNISHMENT Anthony A. Ball '86 Admonition for 17 Quincy; Suspended Requirement to Withdraw for Lowell Thomas N. Crean '86 Suspended Requirement to Withdraw for Lowell...