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AMERICAN "FACT FINDING" missions to regimes trying to crush guerrilla movements have been numerous over the last decade. Thus, it is hard to read through the 11,000 words of Stephen Farber's report to the University on his summer "fact finding" trip to Angola without recalling that this is a rather sorry genre of reporting, and without wishing Farber had given more thought to the disastrous errors of his American fact-finding predecessors...
Although spokesmen for both groups were hesitant to detail their disagreements with the study prior to release of the rebuttal, they said they felt Farber's report represented no change from the past position of the University...
...Farber's report -- the result of a four-week trip to Angola this summer -- concluded that Gulf was unimportant to the continuation of Portuguese rule in the colony, and the effect of Harvard's selling its stock would be "extremely limited...
...Farber said that selling the Gulf stock would be "a symbolic rather than a practical act," and would "appear to have no practical effect in advancing the independence of black Angolans...
...Farber's conclusion that a withdrawal of Gulf from Angola would have little effect on Portuguese policies toward its African colonies was based on his assertion that neither the oil that Gulf produces in Angola nor the revenues that, it brings the Portuguese government had been a major factor in Portuguese decision-making...