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Dates: during 1970-1979
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HARVARD'S DECISION to extend its contract to oversee the design of the Reza Shah Kabir University (RSKU), that the Iranian government is constructing outside Teheran, is a deplorable one. Along with the $250,000 consulting agreement Harvard signed last spring with the Iranian Educational Radio and Television (IERT), another project sponsored by the Iranian government, this decision once again reveals Harvard's disheartening willingness to cooperate with one of the most repressive regimes in the world today...
...from a repressive government such as Korea, as Harvard did in taking a $1 million Korean grant in June 1975, it is inexcusable for Harvard to actively support the Shah's regime. The extended agreement, which will last until next summer, brings the total of Harvard's contracts for designing the "New Community" to over $1 million. Harvard has nothing to gain financially from the agreement. The money will simply be used to hire officials in the Harvard planning office, to fund the design work, and to dispatch Hal Goyette, director of the Harvard Planning Office, to Iran to oversee...
...overhaul of the plant's design, before the foundation was laid, has already resulted in a one-to-two year delay in construction, and attendant costs...
...will emphasize efforts to design an American satellite killer to defend against the Soviet version. In September the Defense Department quietly awarded the $58.7 million contract for its own ASAT program to the Vought Corp. of Dallas. The U.S. plan is to leap frog the relatively crude Soviet ASAT technology and put into space by the mid-1980s hunter-killer satellites armed with lasers that could vaporize metal in 20 billionths of a second...
...Reports Correspondent Ogden: "The Administration says it was all planned that way, but that is not precisely true. They knew there would be anger in Israel at first, and they hoped it would help push things forward, but they were not certain how well it would work. There was design, and some skill, involved in this strategy. But there was also luck that it fell in place as well as it seems to have." The Carter Administration's push for Geneva will surely require much more shoving, not to mention zigging and zagging, in the weeks ahead...