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...films have been banned from almost all the boycotting countries. Even the World Tourism Organization, a loose association of governmental travel bureaus that develops package tours in the Middle East, abruptly moved its regional headquarters from Cairo to the Jordanian capital of Amman. Reminded of the longstanding Arab boycott against Israeli commercial interests, one U.S. businessman in Cairo concluded: "We're faced with a new Arab blacklist...
Officials in Cairo insist that the country will weather the boycott. To counter the possible withdrawal of Saudi and Kuwaiti petrodollars, for example, the Central Bank reportedly will refuse to pay up. To rescue at least some of the A.O.I, arms contracts, Cairo hoped to go ahead with independent Egyptian production of military Jeeps designed by American Motors and Swingfire antitank missiles manufactured under British license...
...doubt this is the sort of education your letter is concerned to protect. I share your desire for the unfettered discovery and transmission of knowledge. Yet I fail to see how the University's free atmosphere would be damaged by a decision to make serious demands for a boycott open to a free and democratic decision by those who use and pay for the services! Your letter fails to note the distinction between purchasing products for services and the actual provision of education in the eyes of students. In the latter case, Harvard can perhaps be permitted to claim...
Indeed, encouraging free and democratic choice is the best justification for the Stevens boycott. Federal courts have found consistently that Stevens has "interfered with, restrained, coerced, its employees in the exercise of their rights...flagrantly, cynically, and unlawfully." Stevens fires union supporters, interrogates employees, discriminates against minorities and especially those who support the union--and, in the case of the Statesboro, Georgia plant, where the union won a representation election, carries through on the threat of plant closing. Where the NLRB, the federal courts and the union have failed, consumers like Harvard can very likely force the company to respect...
...conclusion, I reiterate the feeling of many students: Harvard University does not serve society on a medieval model, remaining aloof from its conflicts and problems. I do not ask the University to decide unilaterally whether or not the Stevens boycott is the morally proper course. Rather, the most responsible position--morally, educationally, and administratively--is to allow students a meaningful say over how the services they use and pay for are conducted...