Word: withdrawals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...student political sentiment in several years, the Harvard Corporation refused to divest itself of its holdings in companies operating in South Africa. It also declined to get rid of its stock in banks lending money to the Vorster regime, or even to sponsor shareholder resolutions urging companies to withdraw. The inspiring protests of the last week in April--a week that saw crowds of up to 3500 students united in protest--may have sputtered with the advent of reading period, but the issue is far from resolved...
Harvard has repeatedly refused to call for all United States corporations to withdraw from South Africa. It has ignored the overwhelming evidence that foreign investors provide strategic, military and economic support to the racist apartheid system. No amount of education for a necessarily tiny number of individuals will offset the damage done by Harvard's tacit support of the status...
Despite the narrow margin, it was clearly a major victory for President Carter's foreign policy. Since the Senate had voted one week earlier to lift the embargo, full-scale arms transfers to Turkey can resume shortly. The embargo originally had been imposed to pressure the Turks to withdraw their troops from Cyprus, which they had invaded in 1974 to protect the island's Turks from the Greek majority. But the arms ban accomplished little except to damage Turkey's ties to NATO and aggravate the country's domestic political instability...
...Last day to withdraw (no adjustment of fees...
...Dayan: The main point of disagreement is the Egyptian concept that there should be a commitment by Israel before the five-year transition period starts by which Israel would undertake to withdraw settlements and soldiers and everything from the territories and that an Arab sovereignty would take its place there. Our concept is that we should have the right not only to keep the present Israeli settlements but to go on buying more land and establishing more settlements on the principle that we should not be considered foreigners in the West Bank and Gaza. It is not a question...