Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...report on the incidents and subsequent disicpline, and the report by the faculty's Commission on Inquiry which investigated allegations of police brutality--cover the April 24 sit-in at the 17 Quincy St. headquarters of Harvard's governing Corporation and the May 2 blockade of a South African diplomat inside Lowell House...
...Responsibilities (CRR) and the Commission of Inquiry (COI) have come up with remarkably similar conclusions about what happened at that protest. Both reports found that students formed a blockade (be it active or passive) in front of the Lowell House Junior Common Room to prevent a South African diplomat's exit. They also found that Harvard Police acted entirely on their own in deciding to form a "human battering ram" through the blockade to free the diplomat...
...past few days the Conservative Club has been outraged by the sympathetic treatment given by the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities to those students who attacked, intimidated, and harrassed South African diplomat Abe S. Hoppenstein at Lowell House last spring. By effectively condoning the actions of the protestors, the CRR has both insulted Mr. Hoppenstein and demonstrated that Harvard will take no action against those who disrupt conservative speakers, making sure that such speakers will hesitate to come to Harvard in the future. Further, if such speakers do come, the CRR's actions only encourage protestors to disrupt their speaking...
There are those who suggest the Lowell House protestors are entitled to leniency because they were demonstrating against a representative of a widely denounced government. However, the target of their protests could just as easily have been a Harvard professor speaking against divestiture, or an Israeli diplomat here to defend Israel's ties with South Africa. By denying one speaker his civil liberties, students deny them to all speakers...
...most the older nations can do to help is to set a rigorous example. The setting for this ambitious exchange is a world conference on hunger being held in Bombay in 1978. By this device, Hare introduces a second spokesman on behalf of the Third World, a Senegalese diplomat (Ving Rhames) who voices the helpless rage of mendicant nations forced to accept aid on conditions that effectively rescind their hard-won independence. All three polemicists are superbly played as variations on a theme of personal dignity...