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...recent attack on the person of Dorot Professor of the Archaeology of Israel Lawrence Stager by Martin Peretz is too full of calumny, whether uttered out of ignorance or malice, to let pass without a public response on my part...
However, Peretz' account of the sins of Lowell in forbidding money raising by the Museum is meant to be placed in parallel with the alleged behavior of Lawrence Stager in forbidding Carney Gavin from raising money for the Museum. This parallelism suggests to an literate reader that Stager, like Lowell was moved by anti-Semitic impulses. This is libel. I am told that Peretz has denied that he meant to brand Stager an anti-Semite--a charge which if believed could end Stager's career as archaeologist in Israel. I must confess that I regard his demurral, if correctly reported...
...Stager] was trying to stay on top of what wasgoing on," Caves said. "He wanted to try toconsolidate fundraising...and as director heshould have the right of review...
Caves said that tensions between the museum staff and the director over the museum's $1 million cumu- lative deficit had severely reduced the chancesfor candid communication between Stager and thestaff. Reading the faxes was the only way to findout about possible unauthorized fundraising, shesaid...
...Stager could not be reached for comment lastnight...