Word: cfia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most people at Harvard are concerned, the Center for International Affairs has been the murkiest political issue in recent memory. As of a year ago, in fact, a large majority of the University did not even know what the CFIA was. And when large numbers of students and Faculty first learned of the Center's existence after the Weatherman raid last Fall, they referred to it as "the CIA" until someone decided those initials were at best misleading and at worst unacceptable...
Whether the CFIA bears any significant relation to its near namesake in Washington has, during the past twelve months, been an occasional subject of debate in the usual political quarters; it has also been the rationale of no less than four major demonstrations. But to most at Harvard, the CFIA really hasn't mattered. Aside from its directors and its small research staff, its would-be attackers and defenders, there are few who have had particularly strong feelings about...
That situation will probably end this Fall. It seems likely that a full-fledged radical campaign against the activities of the CFIA will drag the Center out of its quiet anonymity and make it a visible political symbol. It is now time, in that case, to examine the issues that have thus far been raised only cursorily in leftist pamphlets, Baccalaureate addresses, and University press releases: How was the Center founded? What was it set up to do? What has been its role within the large context of American foreign policy...
...attention. He implies that the Center for International Affairs was somehow involved in the production of the paper. This is totally inaccurate. I wrote the paper in my personal capacity as a consultant to AID. The paper was not in any way connected with the research program of the CFIA...
...positions is clearly incompatible with the rights which professors have along with all other citizens to express their views on public policy and to participate in the political process. A professor does not lose this right because he is either a hawk or a dove, does research at the CFIA or elsewhere, or is named Huntington or Genovese. Mr. Plotke's views are a challenge to the basic principles essential to the life of both an academic community and a free society.Professor of Government