Word: cfia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hyland next attracted attention for two articles in the Crimson of Oct. 22, 1969, which attacked Harvard's Center for International Affairs (CFIA). The CFIA had been the target the month before for a raid by Boston's chapter of Weatherman, and Hyland defended that action, writing. "The only reason I wouldn't blow up the Center for International Affairs is that I might got caught...
This activity had prompted the CFIA to creat safeguards against further physical attack. Valuable files were removed by nervous professors, and Harvard policemen stepped up their patrols in the area...
...bombers, however, appeared unconnected with any student campaign against the CFIA. In a letter to Boston newspapers shortly after the bombing, a group calling itself "the Proud Eagle Tribe, a group of revolutionary women" claimed responsibility for the act, proclaiming, "The Center figures out ways for Pig Nixon to try to destroy people's wars in Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. . . . This, our tribe's first action, is part of a national fall offensive by tribes of kids all over to attack the enemy everywhere he shows his ugly face...
...remainder of the year saw the death of the radical student movement against the CFIA. SDS challenged Center officials to a debate; after weeks of dickering over the procedures, the two groups participated in a widely attended but otherwise uneventful exchange in mid-January. Following the failure of their campaign against the CFIA, SDS then decided to personalize the issue and demand the firing of Samuel P. Huntington, Thompson Professor of Government, who has consulted with a number of government agencies on the Vietnam war. But after a few angry responses from perturbed Faculty members, that campaign too died...
This year passed like an uneasydream-the bombing of the CFIA, the occupation of 888 Memorial Drive, the disruption of the Teach-In-until the Spring Offensive. Mayday and the JFK Building sit-in came, and some went and took risks and were arrested or clubbed for trying to stop a monstrous war. But most didn't, and most found it hard to understand those who had, because a new fear had crept into all of us, a panic quite unlike the panic of last May, and a lot of us were worrying about it all the time...