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Goldfarb, who came to Harvard as an undergraduate in 1965 and earned his Ph.D 10 years later, served on last year's CRR. He says today's students don't understand the tensions that rocked the campus when he studied here, and that the 15-year-old student boycott of the group has prevented actual knowledge of the CRR from influencing their views...
Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger said Reagan had ordered the strike reluctantly and as "a last resort" because European allies would not join in an economic boycott. He said Reagan probably would urge a boycott once again before ordering military action if additional terrorists acts are tied to Khadafy...
Chayes criticized the American boycott because it renounced the principle of community judgement. When the United States sets up a "Hobbesian world, where we are our own judges [of international conduct], then we must grant that right to all," Chayes said...
...case begun in 1984, the ICJ denied American claims that the court did not have jurisdiction over the case, prompting the U.S. to boycott the World Court's proceedings. The case is still being tried without U.S. participation...
Charging that "the United States is trying to get out of town ahead of the sheriff," Chayes attacked the state department's decision to boycott the World Court case. Chayes was one of an international team of five lawyers who brought the suit to the World Court in the Hague, Netherlands...