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HARVARD OFFICIALS have displayed this readiness to cancel events in the face of minor incidents several times, most notably during the Kent-Brown incident last year, when several Harvard students attempted a blockade during the South African diplomat's speech. Harvard Police rushed Kent-Brown out of the room as the blockade formed, and Dean Epps ended the speech without an attempt to negotiate with the protestors--even though the students presented no physical threat to the speaker and had left the front entrance to the auditorium clear...
OBVIOUSLY, the University must not tolerate violent protests such as Laub's attack. However, there is no need to cancel a speech every time a minor disruption occurs...
...attack. Even before he saw it, the Rev. Jerry Falwell referred to it as "Communist propaganda" and threatened a Moral Majority boycott of HBO during September. Claiming that Mandela is "pro-terrorist," Citizens for Reagan, a lobbying group, has said it will call on its 100,000 members to cancel their HBO subscriptions. In response, HBO Chairman Michael Fuchs declared that viewers should make up their own minds about the movie...
...gloom lifted a bit after Moscow privately informed Bonn that West German officials would be allowed to visit Rust this Tuesday. It offered hope that the Soviets will not cancel a state visit by West German President Richard von Weizsacker scheduled for July...
...newly elected President, John Kennedy, was adamant about not involving American forces. Indeed, he insisted on hiding any evidence of American support for the exile army. For that reason the White House decided to cancel crucial air strikes and change the site of the landing from the town of Trinidad, at the foot of the central mountains, to the quieter venue of the Bay of Pigs. It was these decisions, Pfeiffer argues, rather than a faulty process of consultations, that doomed the operation from the start...