Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...committee, voted Wednesday to call upon the 15-member student-faculty Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR) to investigate the cases of students who took part in an April 24 sit-in at the headquarters of Harvard's Governing Boards and the May 2 blockade of a South African diplomat inside Lowell House...
...week later, nearly 200 students protesting a visit by a South African consul general forcibly blocked the exit to the room in which he was speaking. Police burst through the blockade and escorted the diplomat, New York City Consul General Abe S. Hoppenstein, through the crowd, allegedly injuring several students and police...
When 12 students blocked Hoppenstein's getaway car, Harvard police rushed the diplomat back into the JCR. The disorganized throng outside then voted to barricade Hoppenstein in the room until midnight, causing Harvard police to enter panic mode and stage a military-style break through the protesters and assorted students heading to and from lunch...
Certainly, student threats to shut the bewildered diplomat in Lowell House till midnight were excessive and unnecessary, but no more so than the Conservative Club's initial invitation to Hoppenstein to come to a wine-and-cheese reception. In the midst of heightened tensions over Harvard's $580 million in South Africa-related investments, the Conservative Club's move amounted to little more than bald and cynical provocation...
...aspect my rights to invite and host outside guests. The case of the Consul General is no different simply because he represents a regime which nearly all of us find morally reprehensible. While we may not support his position, he deserves to be heard. His status as a foreign diplomat and an invited guest should have been respected...