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Under the sponsorship of Sam Huntington, the Center supported a series of post-mortem seminars on the U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic. The seminar provided a platform for some harsh condemnations of the U.S. action. This was an inevitable result, since that was the way sensible and knowledgeable men judged the U.S. action...
Under the sponsorship of Tom Schelling, the Center is supporting the research of Gene Sharp, a committed anti-Pentagon pacifist, who is trying to explore the ways by which a disarmed populace can deal with military tyrants...
Also under Tom Schelling's sponsorship, the Center supported William Harris' preparation of an annotated bibliography on the work of the intelligence agencies of the big powers- U.S., U.S.S.R., and all that. The object of the bibliography, shortly to be published by the Harvard University Press, is to case the job of researchers who want to locate materials that shed any light on this dark corner of big power activity...
...committee considered three major issues last week? the fact of Defense Department sponsorship, the potential effect of the Project on the academic departments which would be involved, and the ability of the Project's mechanisms of governance to handle various problems. The group will review some of its conclusions at its next meeting on Wednesday...
These issues include: the Defense Department sponsorship of the Project, the Project's possible effect on the Vietnam War, institutional grants and cooperative enterprises with other universities in general, the quality and honesty of the Project proposal, and the general accessibility of Project research...