Word: cfia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Back in the days of student protest, the Center for International Affairs and its operating arm, the Development Advisory Service, were hot political issues at Harvard. The CFIA was accused of being the hatchery for theories applied in Vietnam and the DAS of exporting these doctrines, in the guise of economic advice, to other developing countries...
...group like the Attica Brigade may do something violent. The Attica Brigade, you might remember, led the trashing of the Center for International Affairs during the spring of 1972. The Brigade manipulated a group of anti-war demonstrators returning from a Boston rally into an attack on the CFIA--a move which made no political sense. Who knows what they will be up to tonight? Also, the Ford demo could bring a lot of radical activists out of retirement and back into the fray. A former SDS leader who has been out of political organizing in Cambridge for the last...
...administration did not ask the Middle Eastern Center located at 1737 Cambridge St., to be part of the Kennedy site. The Center's head, Nur Yalman, expects the group to move into the vacated CFIA building or build its own center...
Robert Vernon, director of the CFIA, the one international group that is still included by the administration for the proposed river facility, says that the CFIA has been responsive to the commands of the University to move from its present Divinity Ave. location. However, he also says the most important interaction for the CFIA comes with the West European and Japanese faculty...
...other group important to the CFIA includes the Japanese scholars. Yet the East Asian Center will not be moving, electing to remain with the Y'en Ching Library on Divinity Ave. In addition, the proposed Japanese Institute will someday be located near the Y'en Ching, according to University officials. In short, the CFIA would be at the opposite end of the campus from its two most vital "research allies...