Word: cfia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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 research is all public information and can be used by anyone...
...statement also said that certain students charged with both the obstructive picketing and the CFIA disruption were not informed of their punishmentsfor the earlier CFIA incident until after May 11. The decisions in these cases, therefore, were "somewhat more lenlent" than would usually be the case with students having prior disciplinary records...
...FELLOWS AT THE CFIA...
...demand for an end to university complicity also circumscribes the CFIA. The lengthy NAC leaflet (available on campus and at the New England Free Press) contains compelling evidence that the Center's programs, particularly the Visiting Fellows and Development Advisory Service, materially contribute to United States imperialism. The Center manufactures not munitions or officers but ideology, which is every bit as essential...