Word: popkin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the Pentagon Papers appeared in newspapers around the United States last June, Samuel L. Popkin, assistant professor of Government, was about 8000 miles away, in Hong Kong. The study, he said later, "certainly did not light bulbs and ring bells in my head...
...fact that Popkin was a Vietnam scholar and had worked with Daniel Ellsberg '52 at MIT did light bulbs and ring bells in the heads of government investigators, however. And when a grand jury was empanelled in Boston to probe possible Pentagon Paper-related crimes in Massachusetts, Popkin found himself on its list...
...that on August 19, 1971, Sam Popkin received his first subpoena from the grand jury, beginning a long ride on a legal merry-go-round. That subpoena eventually opened not only the personal question of what relevance Popkin's "testimony" had on the investigation, but also the broader legal question of whether a scholar has the same right as a journalist to protect his confidential sources...
...orcs and all the other creatures who this year descended on the realm of Harvard to free her from the darkness of the days of the morbid Nathan. Nor--for that matter--is there any mention of the university-wide financial crisis, the Design School show-down, Samuel Popkin vs. federal grand juries, the Graduate Students' Union, the PALC demands, HEW guidelines, Radcliffe-Harvard ratios...
...government, represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney Warren P. Reese, argued that no scholarly privilege should exist. Asked by the court whether this might have a detrimental effect on further research--as affidavits for Popkin state--Reese replied that "although there may be a chilling effect, the interest of the public must be balance" Against the possible harm to the national security...