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...Safran said during the fall that he accepted the conference money "as an individual," not on behalf of the center, and therefore did not have to report the grant. Safran last week told The Boston Globe that he "made a mistake in judgment in not informing [the conference participants] as soon as the CIA funding came into the picture, and I attempted to repair the damage by doing so before the conference began...
Spence, calling the executive committee "a divided body," states that as currently constituted it can no longer serve a "useful function." Spence states that the three members who in October called for Safran's resignation did so without consulting their colleagues and before a review had been launched...
...Khan Professor of Iranian Richard N. Frye and Professor of the History of Arabic Science Abdelhamid I. Sabra, two of the three committee members asking for Safran's resignation, said they had reached one of the two other executive committee members, who declined to join them, and were unable to reach the other. The third committee member calling on Safran to resign, Professor of Arabic Wolfhart P. Heinrichs, could not be reached for comment...
...executive committee members who did not call for Safran's resignation--Robert J. Murray, director of the National Security Program at the Kennedy School of Government, and Coolidge Professor of History David S. Landes--also could not be reached for comment...
Sources said Landes is the one executive committee member said in Spence's report to have been "deeply offended" by his colleagues' efforts against Safran, who is the sixth executive committee member...