Contents: CAL SOLD? • THE REAL ISSUE IS THE NATURE OF THE RESEARCH NOT CORNELL'S INVOLVEMENT IN IT • GULF AND COLONIALISM • GULF IN PORTUGUESE AFRICA? Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea Bissau • The document says resistance to Portugal's colonial presence in Africa never completely and is growing again. Independence was gained in many other African countries after World War II, but Portugal merely changed the technical name of her colonies to "overseas provinces." Gulf Oil Corporation started prospecting in Angola in 1951 and struck oil in Cabinda in 1966, where they now extract 99,000 barrels of crude oil daily. In return for the oil concession they are expected to pay Portugal $30...
Contents: CAL SOLD? • THE REAL ISSUE IS THE NATURE OF THE RESEARCH NOT CORNELL'S INVOLVEMENT IN IT • GULF AND COLONIALISM • GULF IN PORTUGUESE AFRICA? Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea Bissau • The document says resistance to Portugal's colonial presence in Africa never completely and is growing again. Independence was gained in many other African countries after World War II, but Portugal merely changed the technical name of her colonies to "overseas provinces." Gulf Oil Corporation started prospecting in Angola in 1951 and struck oil in Cabinda in 1966, where they now extract 99,000 barrels of crude oil daily. In return for the oil concession they are expected to pay Portugal $30 million by the end of this year; their total investment in Angola is worth $250 million. In response to student and faculty pressure, the Cornell University Trustees decided to sell Cornell Aeronautical Lab (CAL) for a profit. Electronic Data Processing Technology, a firm born suspiciously at the same time the decision to sell was made, won the bidding largely due to the influence of Chairman of the Board Purcell. The document expresses support for Operation STOP's demand that Cornell use its role as a shareholder to force Gulf to disengage from Angola. This would demonstrate that they will not own stock in corporations directly involved in genocide. The liberation armies now control almost all of Guinea-Bissau, about one-third of Mozambique and a large area of Angola. The document mentions Project Heatwave, Portugal's military, U.S. support of Portugal, Professor Franklin Long, Professor Franklin Moore, gold mines, literacy, land, farmers of European descent, NATO, President Richard Nixon, Premier Caetano of Portugal, an air base in the Azores, Cornell Controller Arthur Peterson, [This document was produced by Cornell University students and others who occupied Carpenter Hall which they renamed Giap-Cabral Hall after Vietnamese General Võ Nguyên Giáp and Amílcar Cabral, leader of the PAIGC which fought for the independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde. The occupation began on April 26, 1972.]
