Word: plo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chairman of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) alumni group resigned last month, protesting the unusual research appointment of a former Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) affiliate which he charges was made as a condition of a Saudi businessman's $1 million gift to Harvard...
Arnold M. Soloway, who served this past year as chairman of the Graduate Society Council, the GSAS's alumni organization, criticized last spring's appointment of Walid Khalidi--a former aide to PLO head Yasser Arafat--to an open-ended research post at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, calling it a "moral failing" on Harvard's part...
...million gift from a Saudi businessman to establish a professorship in contemporary Arab Studies that some faculty members of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies said was effectively conditional on the appointment of Walid Khalidi, previously a visiting professor and reportedly an affiliate of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), to an unusual open-ended research post. As one official close to the center, who declined to be identified, described it last May, Harvard and the unnamed donor had an unwritten understanding that "the appointment of Khalidi [as a researcher] was a condition of obtaining the money" for the new professorship...
...Kennedy School, the other by the leading American official of the Palestinian Liberation Organization. The Moral Majority leader attracted a crowd of students--some dressed in drag and some in Falwell costumes--who protested his positions against the nuclear freeze and women's issues. Abdul Rahman, director of the PLO Information Office drew more serious protests for his statements that Israel was responsible for genocide in the Middle East...
...Crimson's honest attempt to correct the inaccuracies of Ms. Bernstein's article fells short in two ways. First, as the underlined portions of the text above show, no organization, including the Harvard Arab Student Society, ventured any views about the "tactics" of the PLO in any public statement to the press. Second, although it is technically accurate that the other groups "did not endorse the PLO's aims and tactics" (as your article reports), it is also true that they did not not endorse them, but merely that in this instance too no opinion whatsoever was advanced. In fact...