Antiapartheid Rallies.

In 1985 the Reagan administration defended its refusal to apply economic sanctions to South Africa as a means of ending that country's official policy of apartheid. Demonstrations on campuses all across the United States on 4 April 1985 marked the seventeenth anniversary of the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. with protests against racism in general and South Africa's apartheid system in particular. Amy Carter, daughter of former president Jimmy Carter and a Brown University student, was one of the more-prominent personalities arrested in a four-thousand-person demonstration led by Washington, D.C., mayor Marion Barry at that city's South African embassy.

Divestiture Demands.

Also coinciding with the 4 April King anniversary, several hundred students at Columbia University in New York City began a blockade of a campus building to demand that the university divest itself of $32.5...