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...Moreover, given Professor Herf's phobia of unopen sources, how come he doesn't object to the mere use of classified materials?) Would Professor Herf think it is all right, say, for a scholar to give to the family of a deceased public official or writer the right to censor a biography it has helped fund...
TAKING THE ANTI-CONTRA people at their word--that is, assuming the Contras to be reprehensible--one must ask what they were trying to hide by censoring such an obvious rogue. The advance of information and understanding will never do harm to a just government or a just cause; only leaders who cannot answer to their people need the services of a censor...
Those who claim the staff endeavored to "censor" Playboy, or to protect Harvard women from themselves, miss the point of the majority's intentions, just as they did seven years ago when The Crimson rejected the same...
Recent controversy over CIA sponsorship of the research of two Harvard professors foreshadows the kind of damage that politics brings to the funding process. The CIA reserves the right to censor work which it sponsors; but censorship of research findings runs counter to the policies and spirit upon which universities are based. While the CIA is not Congress, the CIA funding episodes suggest that Congress might ask in the future for similar freedom-constraining privileges in return for research grants...
There are opposition magazines, yes. And for the last four years they have not had to send copy to a censor's office. Elisabeth, star political reporter for the best of these magazines, the New Left Apsi, writes in-depth critiques of the junta, often exposing Pinochet's weakness within the ruling elite. They are printed and read by perhaps 5000 people. The tiny circulation of these magazines insure that the cost to the junta of their being read by a handful of intellectuals is far outweighed by the benefit of bringing them before the U.N. as proof of Chile...