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Defense Without War, led by Gene Sharp, Research Fellow at the Center. The seminar will discuss "potentialities of prepared nonviolent mass civilian resistance to deter and defeat internal dictatorship, and military coups." Focusing on specific cases-from the Kapp Putsch of 1920 to last year's Czechoslovakian invasion-the seminar will explore "means of preparation and training that could make nonviolent resistance more effective as eventual replacement for military defense...
African Liberation Movements and U. S. Policy, led by Robert I. Rotberg. Research Fellow at the Center, and others. Using the liberation movements in Portuguese and Southern Africa as examples, this seminar will examine "ways in which the U. S. government and individuals help and hinder African liberation movements...
Ford added that "the University should have nothing to do with anything that isn't basic research," but admitted that it is impossible in practice "to set up an absolute safeguard" against the use of research for questionable ends...
Special guests at yesterday's Committee on Research Policy meeting included Charles F. Mosteller, professor of Mathematical Statisties, and Aaron N. Fleischer. associate professor of City Planning at M.I.T. Mosteller and Fleischer are currently chairman and vice-chairman. respectively, of the Project's Advisory Board...
...discoveries are knowledge, not implements, and it is generally accepted in the profession of it that this knowledge is to be distributed without restriction to all who can make use of it. (Mr. Bruck acknowledges that the Cambridge Project proscribes secrecy.) Applications to come from the "basic methodological" researches into the uses of large data banks (the major part of which research will comprise efficient technologies of information retrieval, to furnish the equivalent of an entire archive at every attached time-sharing terminal) will have no intrinsic connection with policies of repression at home or abroad; social repression, after...