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Appearing as a full-page advertisement in this month's issue of Harvard Magazine, the letter by Stanford President Donald Kennedy '52 was an effort to caution against voting for an independently nominated slate of prodivestment Overseers candidates that includes South African Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu...
...before the encounter, representatives of the government and Solidarity had signed an accord that paved the way for the legalization of the previously outlawed trade union and moved the country one step closer to what may become Eastern Europe's first multiparty system. Last week Solidarity backed a preliminary slate of twelve candidates, including a film idol, a schoolteacher and a former political prisoner, to run in the parliamentary elections scheduled for June. If successful, Poland's experiment could set an example to be followed by other reform-minded East bloc countries and prompt a further warming in U.S.-Soviet...
Tutu heads this year's pro-divestment slate of five candidates for the Board of Overseers nominated by Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid...
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...student and alumni divestment movement--in moving from mass protests and the erection of shanties in 1984 and 1985 to the alternative slate of pro-divestment overseers candidates nominated by petition for the past four years--has demonstrated a willingness to continually address the success of its tactics. There is no standard set of tactics that is right for every movement or for every point in history. Without an overwhelmingly polarizing issue such as Vietnam to unite behind, there is no easy formula for increasing political activity. The point is to keep trying...