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HARVARD, declares the conservative flyer, "is controlled by a bastion of faculty and students determined to use our university's considerable resources to forward a narrow, self-seeking leftist political agenda...
EVEN MORE WORRISOME, however, is the fact that this liberal mentality is the only one that many consider acceptable. A "leftist McCarthyism" has attempted to quell any ensuing dialogue, and has portrayed any opposing view as narrow-minded or unworthy of consideration. Frankly, I find this attitude not only greatly disturbing, but disgusting as well...
Just before he angrily resigned as Soviet Foreign Minister, Eduard Shevardnadze went out of his way to help his friend James Baker with a problem in Central America. The Secretary of State suspected that leftist guerrillas in El Salvador had acquired sophisticated Soviet SA-7 and SA-14 shoulder-held antiaircraft missiles to use against the U.S.-backed government. Baker gave his counterpart a photo of a seized launching tube, and Shevardnadze promised to investigate. In their last meeting in Houston, Shevardnadze informed Baker that the missiles were part of a shipment sent to Nicaragua in 1986. Armed with that...
...undisputed facts were ugly enough: guerrillas of the leftist Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.) last week shot down a U.S. military helicopter, killing its three-man crew. But determining just how and when the Americans died proved difficult...
There are certainly activistic and even leftist elements among these groups, but neither of these orientations is intellectually illegitimate at Harvard, nor at any other serious university...