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Proxy Votes: How They Work

Annual meeting date: May 9, Proxy final by April 12.

South African operations: not available from company. A similar shareholder petition was decisively rejected about five years ago, according to a spokesman.

Total number of shares: 184.1 million. Harvard's holdings: 226,430 shares.

General Motors, Inc., New York, N.Y.

Size: 657,000 employees. 1983 sales: $60.03 billion

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Business: automobiles, commercial vehicles and related products.

Proxy vote: stop sales to South Africa military and police.

Annual meeting date: May 24.

South African operations: In 1984, GM sold 44,000 vehicles in South Africa, winning about 8 percent of the passenger car market there and 16 percent of the commercial market. Specific figures for sales to military and police were not available, but spokesman George Schrecht said "sales to police and military would be nominal, very nominal. We don't make any vehicles in South Africa for any kind of specifically military operation." Schrecht said that GM was one of the 12 original companies to sign the Sullivan Principles, whose author, the Rev. Leon Sullivan, sits on GM's board. It currently has a category 1 Sullivan rating from Arthur D. Little Co., the highest possible.

Total number of shares: 313 million, owned by about 1.1 million separate shareholders. Harvard's holdings: 243,300

Kimberly-Clark Corp., Neenah, Wise.

Size: 32,753 employees. 1983 sales: $2.95 billion

Business: facial tissues, health care products specialty papers.

Proxy vote: sign Sullivan Principles.

Annual meeting date: April 18.

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