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Fourteen students were charged before the Committee in connection with the Lowell House incident. Charges against four students were dismissed. Ten students were required to withdraw from the University for varying periods of time, with the requirement suspended. In the event of any further misconduct during the period of suspension deemed by the Committee to warrant disciplinary action, the suspension will be nullified and the requirement that the student withdraw will take effect...
...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...
Lamar was also lauded for his willingness to make controversial decisions. He once suspended middleweight champion Sugar Ray Robinson after the fighter walked out on a Boston Garden fight. He also invited controversy by having Massachusetts withdraw from the National Boxing Association...
...guerrillas of the South West African People's Organization as at supporting Angolan insurgents fighting against the Marxist government in Luanda. (South Africa later admitted that it was aiding the Angolan resistance.) The Angolan government said the action violated a 1984 accord under which South Africa agreed to withdraw its forces from southern Angola in exchange for Angola's promise to prohibit SWAPO forces from operating there. The accusation followed the disclosure that South Africa had violated a similar pact with Mozambique by supplying antigovernment guerrillas in that country with radios and weapons. South African Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha...
...American companies to leave South Africa in the hope that their departure will administer a shock to the economy that will force the Botha regime to leave office or dismantle apartheid. This strategy breaks down for several reasons. To begin with, in the unlikely event that American firms did withdraw as a result of divestment, the result is not likely to cause apartheid to disappear. Instead, the departure of these firms might simply cause black unemployment without forcing the Afrikaner regime to change its policies. More likely, local interests would buy up the American facilities at bargain proces, and life...