Word: divesting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...November 21 of last year 19 Harvard alumni and other antiapartheid activists were arrested while staging a peaceful protest outside a Harvard University fundraising dinner. They were protesting Harvard's refusal to divest its $300 million invested in companies doing business in South Africa. Seven of these individuals will go on trial today in Middlesex District Court...
...support and commend the "Harvard 7" and their fellow activists for their efforts in pressuring Harvard to divest its apartheidconnected holdings. The movement for change in South Africa is mounting daily. The South African government talks of reform, but has viciously repressed the growing movement for full economic and political rights. An estimated 24,000 South Africans are in detention--40 percent of them children. As President Reagan's special advisory committee on South Africa concluded earlier this year, "Negotiations between Blacks and whites in South Africa appear unlikely until a further combination of internal and external pressures raises...
...This is the first major bill that uses a new definition of divestment," said Slate. "It will not exempt the whole trend of companies that only semi-divest," he said...
Oberlin President S. Frederick Starr said that, in a meeting with the Rev. Leon Sullivan this month, he was surprised by the minister's inconclusiveness over how well the Sullivan Principles work, but he said he will nonetheless recommend that his school divest at the next meeting of Oberlin's trustees...
Starr will recommend to the trustees next month that Oberlin divest of its holdings in companies that do business in South Africa, The Oberlin Review reported...