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...23rd signer of the confidential telex was Matina S. Horner, president of Radcliffe and another member of the Time party...
...EASY, very easy to feel a sense of betrayal, of anger at Horner for lobbying for the AWACS deal. It's much harder to explain why. Thus University has never discouraged its administrators from speaking their minds, Dean Rosovsky, most notably, has been vocal in his support of Israel during his nine years as dean Indeed. Rosovsky says that "while I strongly disagree" with Horner's AWACS stance. "I very much would defend her night to speak out on the issue." If anything, Horner went out of her way to disassociate the University from her lobbying effort...
...clearly an individual statement and in no way should reflect on the institution." Horner says "I told the co-signers that I would not sign it if they felt it necessary to put people's affiliation" on the message. Time did not invite Horner to join the executives on the two week "fact-finding" trip solely because of her Radcliffe post. A member of Time's board like other signers. Horner first became affiliated with the publication years earlier. When it used to talk to her about her academic work as a psychologist...
...excuse Horner's action because it avoided besmirching the name of fair Radclife is to miss the ethical boat entirely. Her lobbying is questionable precisely because it was an individual effort, compelled by no institutional imperatives. As The New Republic reported last week, the Riyadh telex was but one element in a massive Saudi lobbying effort for the AWACS sale--an effort targeted and American corporations anxious to secure lucrative contracts with the Saudis. The corporate leaders accompanying Horner clearly felt a need to advance their corporate interests; that does not make their lobbying excusable, but it does make...
Only one other member of the Time tour--Vernon Jordan, then head of the National Urban League--acted without institutional constraints. Jordan refused to sign the telex. Horner says she does not know why Jordan, now a law partner in a Washington, D.C. law firm, tells a different story...