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Students at the rally watched a guerilla theater performance satirizing Bok's views on moral considerations in appointments and listened to speakers who criticized Harberger's role as an adviser to the Chilean military junta...
Speaking at the demonstration, Barry Carter, a member of SYL, said Harberger's policies "have meant death and starvation for thousands of Chilean workers." Harberger's involvement with the Pinochet government in Chile is a "disgusting act of U.S. imperialism," Carter said, adding that "Harvard is a main think tank of U.S. imperialism...
...means best for the poor. In addition, Harberger and his colleagues fail to take income distribution into account, and when they boast that there has been "growth" and "progress" in Chile, one cannot help wondering "growth" for whom? Though he tried to explain his shady links with the Chilean junta on Sunday, February 17th, at the Kennedy School, those of us present remained unconvinced...
...hard to imagine what Harberger's loyalty to his friends will do to Harvard's relationship with the Chilean government: it will create one where none existed. Transcontinental phone calls will be placed on Harvard's account, travel vouchers will be issued for trips to Santiago, and high officials of the Chilean government will come to Harvard as honored guests of the Harvard Institute for International Development. Through the weekly, perhaps daily, exchanges between Cambridge and Santiago which Harberger's loyalty to his friends will require, Harvard and the junta will grow closer...
...great deal if Harberger comes to Harvard, cannot be called loyal to those things to which American universities are loyal. Harberger's friends are loyal to institutionalized barbarianism. They are loyal to a clique of bloody-minded military officers which mounted an horrific reign of terror against the Chilean people (in summer 1973, the conservative Chilean daily El Mercurio called for an "Indonesian solution" to Chile's political conflicts--that is very nearly what Chile got), and which today rules without the slightest regard for the institutional and legal safeguards of civilized and liberal nations. This clique even sent...