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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...
Robert Bowie, director of the CFIA, who arrived at the Center just after the bomb went off, would not comment on who did it. He added that the bomb was "either in the third floor reading room or the men's room and it would be perfectly easy for anyone to put a bomb there...
...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...