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...undergraduate referendum held in October forces the council to advocate a policy of complete divestment of all of the University's South Africa-related holdings...
...value of the holdings from $138.9 million in June 1989 to $223.3 million in June 1990. According to the latest annual report of the Harvard University Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (CCSR), the jump was caused by an increase in the value of the shares Harvard previously held and the "purchase of additional shares in five portfolio companies...
Although the rally was held in one of the main squares of Jerusalem and publicized days in advance fewer than 1500 people attended; I estimated that about a third of them were journalists or curious passers...
Kach as an organization will probably not survive for long. The movement was held together by Kahane's intensely charismatic personality, and there is no heir-apparent ready to take over. Chances are that the party will splinter, as so many other Israeli political movements have done in the past, and lose many members to other right-wing parties. The fanatical anti-Arab sentiment of Kahane's followers will probably survive without...
...boycott against military men and their families, refusing to accept the alms from them that earn the donor merit in a future life, or to participate in weddings and funerals. The boycott stirred anxiety among the troops. "Most of the young soldiers come from villages where monks are held in high respect," says Omar Farouk, a Burmese Muslim living in Bangkok...