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Before turning to the topic of his lecture, Ali apologized for having missed his previous engagement, and went on to explain that he had almost been forced to cancel this appearance on account of another scheduling conflict. He was supposed to appear at an honorary dinner at a New Jersey high school. Not wanting "to say I couldn't make it again," he cancelled the New Jersey engagement after reimbursing the $1,500 that had been spent for dinner for 300. "But I learned one thing. I'll never make all these commitments on the same day. I'm good...
...Asians hope that a stability of sorts will be brought about by what Singapore's Foreign Minister S. Rajaratnam describes as a "fourhanded poker game." He means a balance of interests between the four major powers that will cancel out the dominance of any single nation. For example, Asian diplomats envision an abiding U.S. interest in the area that will continue to compete with Japan's economic power. They see the growing Soviet trade and naval presence as a counterbalance to China...
Both in the ensuing controversy and the CRR hearing, the debate has revolved around the alleged violation of freedom of speech posed by the threat of disruption. No one has acknowledged the much more complex circumstances surrounding the on-the-spot decision to cancel the lecture...
Pound and other members of the Physics Department denied that Land's donations had in any way entered into their decision to cancel the lecture...
Robert V. Pound, chairman of the Physics Department and one of the professors who made the decision to cancel the lecture, said yesterday that he had not expected that the demonstrators would completely prevent Land from giving his prepared lecture. He said he thought they would let the lecture proceed once the South African question had been discussed. But, he said, raising the issues would have created an unsuitable climate for the lecture...