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Officials at other schools around the country have established strict codes during the past year to determine what constitutes free speech, arguing that the open exchange of ideas sometimes requires universities to stifle particularly obnoxious or offensive dissent--what many term "fighting words...
...report--written by a committee headed by Ford Professor of International Security Joseph S. Nye--was designed primarily to ensure the rights of speakers invited to Harvard while maintaining the audience's right to dissent. It was prompted by two 1987 speaking events in which speakers were shouted down by hostile audience members. University officials had feared that the incidents would deter others from coming to Harvard...
...report meets that goal admirably, with a reasonable and consistent set of rules for preserving the rights to speak out, hear and dissent. The report also guarantees the sanctity of classroom discussion...
...Soviet troops. A delegation from Moscow was in Hungary last week and will be in Czechoslovakia this week to discuss a specific timetable, possibly before the end of the year. The Soviets told the Poles that they are prepared to talk about troop reductions there. Torn by internal dissent and economic failure, the Soviet Union is in the process of unilaterally reducing its army by 500,000 soldiers...
...President's veto of a bill that would have allowed 40,000 Chinese students to remain in the U.S. rather than face possible persecution in their homeland in the wake of the June massacre of pro- democracy demonstrators. Last November, after that legislation passed both houses of Congress without dissent, Bush blocked it. He argued that he could extend the students' visas on his own authority but would not sign legislation that could anger China's rulers...