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...least one reporting assignment actually threatened his education, recalled James K. Glassman '69, a former managing editor at The Crimson, Caught up in the momentum of a massive protest of Dow Chemical in the spring of 1968, Short and Glassman were arrested and faded suspension from Harvard. But than Dean of the College Fred L. Glimp '50 agreed to let them continue if they would drop their names from The Crimson's masthead for six months, Glassman said...
...sneak up to the Tribune building at night with my duffel bag. It is very dangerous to be a long-haired kid from out of state on the streets. They are still arresting people. I meet Parker [Donham '67('69) of The Boston Globe] and James Glassman ['69 of the Herald Traveler] in the Times office. Glassman gives me his suit coat so we won't get stopped. Parker drives us to the airport. And we take off out of there...
...January, Glassman arrived in San Salvador to seek information about how the guerrillas were obtaining large quantities of sophisticated weapons. The Salvadoran general staff had already provided some captured documents, including an account of an arms shopping trip made last year by a Salvadoran Communist official to Moscow, Hanoi and Soviet bloc capitals. But there was no evidence that any weapons had been delivered or shipped to nearby countries. Discouraged, Glassman was about to return to Mexico City when he decided to ask the National Police. They gave him the grocery-store papers...
...Glassman quickly scanned the notes, letters and committee reports, but they were mostly in code. Then a guerrilla leader's letter mentioned an effort by "the Esmeralda management" to help patch up a factional split among the guerrillas. A second letter openly thanked a Cuban official for his assistance in ending the dispute...
Realizing that the Esmeralda management meant the Cuban government, Glassman reread the documents, substituting Cuba for Esmeralda. One report discussed the Communist official's trip and the weapons he was promised. Another document spoke of Esmeralda-Cuba as a transshipment point for weapons from Ethiopia and Viet Nam, and mentioned guerrilla supply lines through Nicaragua. The grocery-store papers represented over 70% of the material that Washington used to draw up last month's White Paper documenting Soviet and Cuban arms aid to El Salvador's insurgency...