Word: cfia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...CFIA had long been the object of attacks by Harvard radicals who were critical of its role in American foreign policy. Although the Center has always been rather tame by Washington standards, it includes on its letter masthead such policy stalwarts as Robert R. Bowie, once a prominent figure in John Foster Dulles' State Department, and Henry A. Kissinger, now President Nixon's special assistant for natural security affairs...
During the year before, no less than four major protests had made a target of the CFIA. In September 1969, a group of about 20 Weathermen invaded the Center, painting slogans on its walls and roughing up several of its members. Two weeks later, the November Action Coalition led a group of about 250 students on a noisy "tour" of the building. The following April, NAC sponsored a demonstration which entered the Center and broke up a meeting of its Visiting Committee. And a month afterward, another group organized by NAC held a "mill-in" on the CFIA's second...
...SHARP, a CFIA fellow, describes nonviolence as a "power relying on noncooperation, intervention, and nonviolent moral courage." Specific actions include marches, boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, and obstructions. Nonviolence is based on the idea that the system needs the cooperation of the people in order to exert control over them. If the people by their own will decide to withdraw that cooperation, Sharp reasons, then the system must topple...
...creation of the Harvard Center for International Affairs gave Kissinger a chance to return to teaching and scholarship with his power base intact. The CFIA was being set up by the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations as well as by McGeorge Bundy and Harvard's leading foreign policy specialists. In a struggle for the position of associate director, Kissinger-reportedly with the prodding of the Rockefeller group-edged out Edward Katzenbach, director of the Harvard-M.I.T. Defense Studies Program out of which the new Harvard Center grew...
...Galbraith continued his remarks, Thomas Schelling, professor of Economics, emerged from the back door of the CFIA to find Galbraith and the marchers covering the white BMW. After a quick assessment of the situation, he made his move...