Word: cfia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Through last year, the CFIA was the target of a full-fledged campaign by Harvard-based radical groups critical of its role in American foreign policy. On April 9 about 200 members of the November Action Committee disrupted a meeting of the CFIA's visiting committee and one student was severed from the University...
...year began with a violent attack by the Weathermen on the CFIA. On September 25 a group of about 25 persons, none of them Harvard students, invaded the Center, roughed up staff members and employees, and fled after fifteen minutes. Because the attack came so early in the year many people were uncertain about just who the Weathermen were and how strong they were. University officials braced for a violent year. The Weathermen, of course, are a tiny splinter group of SDS and have not reappeared at Harvard since the CFIA action. But the issue of CFIA remains...
...CFIA is primarily funded by the Ford Foundation. The Faculty members and research associates affiliated with the Center work on a variety of projects, including economic development, arms control, and studies of underdeveloped countries. Radicals claim that the research is then used by the government to suppress liberation movements around the world. CFIA associates say that their researchis all public information and can be used by anyone...
...April 9 a demonstration disrupted a meeting of the CFIA visiting committee and resulted in the punishment of 18 students, two of whom were ordered to leave the college...
While acknowledging the need for constant criticism and re-evaluation of the DAS' work. Papanek condemned the specific tactics of Harvard radicals, who have generally advocated abolition of the CFIA and the DAS. "They haven't wanted to change our approach to problems, they've just wanted to attack us," he said...