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STUDENTS ON CAMPUSES around the country recently have forced several controversial figures to cancel or cut short speeches U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, for example, was driven from a lecture platform at the University of California at Berkeley, forced to withdraw is commencement speaker at Smith College when her could not be guaranteed, and repeatedly interrupted while addressing at University of Minnesota group. In an attempt to end such disruptions, a coalition of college presidents, faculty members and students led by the American Council on Education (ACE) last week issued statement urging the academic community...
...ability to dissent is of course just as important as the freedom to put forth an idea. But violent protest is more often than not counterproductive. Those who attacked Kirkpatrick unwittingly played into her hands: Now kirkpatrick can ignore the very legitimate criticism of her policies by attributing criticism to disruptive radicals and kooks...
...APPROXIMATELY a year before the war, the Reagan Administration, primarily in the person of United Nations Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, had been vigorously courting Argentina. Kirkpatrick, hoping to gain practical support for the United States positions concerning Nicaragua and El Salvador, was laying the groundwork for lifting the arms embargo imposed by Jimmy Carter, and according to Argentine sources, had indicated that the U.S. would give any military excursion to the Falklands a sympathetic hearing. But the magnitude of the British response put the United States in the difficult position of deciding where its loyalties lay in the conflict--realizing that...
Several national education lobbying groups with which the University is affiliated last week announced a campaign to prevent campus demonstrations which have forced controversial speakers such as U. N. Ambassador Jeanne J. Kirkpatrick to cancel addresses...
...campaign, which encourages campus groups to uphold the rights of speakers by letting them carry out their remarks, was spurred by Kirkpatrick's withdrawl as commencement speaker at Smith College due to widespread student and faculty opposition. Former Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver and Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Sheik Ahmed Z. Yamani have also recently cancelled addresses citing campus protests...