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...Harvard really wanted to defend free speech, it would have allowed police to arrest the students who blocked South Africa Consul General Abe S. Hoppenstein in the Lowell House Junior Common Room, just as protesters have been booked at colleges and consulates around the country. Ironically, although officials argue that the May 2 incident should be treated internally, the students involved would receive more due process before a real court...
...Conservative Club snowed remarkably poor judgement in holding a private luncheon with the South Africa Consul General on Thursday, May 2. Given the sensitivity of this issue, the Conservative Club's action appears blatantly provocative and could be easily interpreted as tacit approval of apartheid. This is not to say that the views of the South African government should not be heard, only that it would be far more appropriate if this were done in a public forum...
...instance, a lot of money was used to bribe some German technicians in order to acquire a (West German) Leopard tank. The question was how to get the engine to the U.S.S.R. The solution was for the Soviet consul in the area to buy a yacht and have its engine taken out and replaced with the Leopard's engine. The yacht then rendezvoused several miles out to sea with a Soviet merchant ship, to which the engine was transferred...
What was the corresponding legal duty of the police? We were not formally asked to leave. We were not arrested. Our expectation consistent with the history of civil disobedience was that we be arrested. By that arrest the Consul General could have peaceably gone free. This exchange of liberty was the basis of our actions; on our campus, as in his country his impunity requires that opponents of apartheid are failed...
Obviously, this forum is too limited to present a complete argument, but we have given voice to some important considerations. A South African Consul General was being honored in our dormitory. Did the University hope for us to sit in the dining halls, discuss the visit, and let it pass routinely by? Jeff L. Jorgensen '85 William M. Mallard '85 Zachary Robinson GSAS Jen Nessel '88 Pauls Raudseps Richard H. Draylon '86 Benjamin B. Robinson '85 Scott Nova Melinda B. Daetsch '85 Elizabeth E. Ruddick...