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Although we differ about the suitability of Arnold Harberger as Director of the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID), we do not question the sincerity of his opposition to the unconstitutional and repressive practices of the Pinochet regime, as expressed in a letter in the Wall Street Journal on December 10, 1976. This letter, responding to opposition to the award of a Nobel Prize to his colleague, Milton Friedman, stated...
...Augusto Pinochet, Chile's President, ordering twelve dissidents against his regime into "internal exile" in isolated communities: "What people do not understand with words, they understand with action...
...enough, one only has to remember the assassination of Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier 3 years ago in our nation's capitol -a murder for which the U.S. Justice Department has indicted members of Chile's secret police. These murders continue to roam freely in Chile, as General Pinochet has refused to extradite them to stand trial in this country...
PRESIDENT BOK defended his nomination of Arnold C. Harberger to head the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) last month at Lowell House on the pinnacles of academic freedom. The strident voices of politicized students who objected to Harberger's ties with the oppressive Pinochet government in Chile can not sway him, he argued; that would lower academic appointments from their eminence and subject them to the shifting tides of the external political environment. Attacks on Harberger today could then turn into attacks on left-wing appointments if the national mood suddenly shifted to the far right...
Speaking at the demonstration, Barry Carter, a member of SYL, said Harberger's policies "have meant death and starvation for thousands of Chilean workers." Harberger's involvement with the Pinochet government in Chile is a "disgusting act of U.S. imperialism," Carter said, adding that "Harvard is a main think tank of U.S. imperialism...