Word: statements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...writers of the pamphlet--a group of students sympathetic to the eight SDS demands--said in a statement that they objected to the idea of forcing people out of their homes at all rather than to the lack of relocation plans. The pamphlet concerned itself specifically with the area to be torn down for the new Affiliated Hospitals Center...
Referring to a Med School plan to hire a relocation expert to assist area residents in finding new homes at comparable rents, the statement read, "The relocation plan is not a bad plan--it is a good plan for bad purposes." It continued, "The effect is to withdraw the community even further from the actual focus of power...
...That Harvard's being unaware of abuses going on in the area is no excuse for them. "Harvard's agents are responsible for what happened to the community, and what happened has served Harvard's needs," the statement read...
...SCHELL'S statement was borne out when a group of CCAS people, acting as individuals rather than CCAS representatives, attempted to join a Southeast Asian Development Advisory Group (SEADAG) panel in discussing a paper by Harvard Government professor Samuel Huntington. The SEADAG meeting, on "Political Succession in Southeast Asia," was sponsored by the AID, and many CCAS members saw it as "a pernicious attempt to further the U.S. aggression against the Vietnamese people through political as well as military means...
...they were all affiliated with educational institutions and had legitimate interests in discussing the paper on a matter of public concern. After half an hour of discussion and finally at Sachs's insistence, the panel voted on his motion--they tabled it. At this point, Sachs made an impassioned statement about the "gangsterism" of the "interlopers," announced his resignation from SEADAG, and walked out of the room (he stormed out of last year's Vietnam Caucus in Philadelphia in the same fashion...