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Harvard has done all these things and will continue to do so. Within the past year, we have been in active dialogue with a number of companies in our portfolio. Sixteen firms with which we have corresponded have announced plans to adhere to the Sullivan principles. Others have announced specific steps to improve their Sullivan performance rating and improve the conditions of their black employees. Seven firms with which we were actively corresponding have either sold their South African operations or announced their intention to do so. Since our last progress report, two firms manifested sufficient intransigence in their communications...
...ground. British police launched a massive search after Scotland Yard reported that it had uncovered a plot by the outlawed Irish Republican Army to place bombs at twelve English seaside resorts. Police defused one device in a crowded hotel just 100 yds. from Buckingham Palace in London. Sixteen suspects were detained. At the U.S. State Department, officials announced plans to renovate or relocate almost half of its 262 embassies and consulates, citing vulnerability to espionage and terrorist attack as the reason for the new program, which is expected to cost $3.5 billion...
...Sixteen candidates ran for City Council almost two years ago, but only nine were seated. Once-defeated candidates like Richard P. Branson, Francis J. Budryk, John W. Downing, Jr., Bill Durette, Jr., and David A. Wylie are now the top contenders for the the last spot on the council...
...heart attack; in London. Plomley's formula was unvarying: he asked each of his 1,791 guests to select eight recordings, one book and one luxury for an indefinite stay on a desert island. Princess Margaret's picks included Rule Britannia; Guide Me, O Thou Great Redeemer; and Sixteen Tons sung by Tennessee Ernie Ford...
...Sixteen years since his only victory, Andretti will start the 69th Indy 500 from the second row, just behind Pole-Sitter Pancho Carter and just ahead of Unser. Sons Al Unser Jr. and Michael Andretti will follow in the fourth and fifth rows of brilliantly painted cars scattered three abreast across the asphalt track. A circus kind of calling, racing regularly summons more than one generation of the same family, though these are the only fathers and sons who have ever raced together at Indianapolis. In his christening two years ago, Al Jr., 23, brought a smile to the speedway...