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...task force set up six months ago to explore new ways of fighting terrorism. Next week the debate will spill into the open, as Secretary of State George Shultz and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger join more than 100 experts to discuss the future of low-intensity conflict at a symposium at Fort McNair in Washington...
Against university rules, said Spence, Safran had invited Middle East scholars from the U.S. and abroad to a symposium on Islamic fundamentalism, to be held at the center on Oct. 15-16, without first telling either Harvard or the guests that the CIA had contributed $45,700 toward the conference. Moreover, Safran's recently published book, Saudi Arabia: The Ceaseless Quest for Security, had been underwritten in part by a CIA grant of $107,430, conveyed under a contract granting the agency review and censorship of the manuscript. When, a week before the conference, word leaked out about...
While steps like that are being explored, Summers must be allowed to move on and get back to business. As of yet, he is still facing unfair scrutiny. In April, attendees of a September 2004 symposium on Native Americans came forward with more “offensive” remarks that Summers had uttered. Not only did these remarks not deserve such concern, the reappearance of these comments several months after the fact suggested that Summers would have to face more hurdles, ex post facto and otherwise, now that the Jan. 14 incident had gained such prominence. This is certainly...
...Little did we know that four months earlier, Summers had “offended” a different audience with comments his listeners labeled “really really insulting.” Of course, we didn’t know this because scholars at that September 2004 symposium on Native Americans just came forward last week...
...Song's ordeal is part of a rash of brutal incidents that have pushed school violence and gang activities to the top of the national agenda in South Korea. In a chilling report released at a police-sponsored symposium last month, high school teacher Jong Sae Yong claimed that as many as 400,000 kids?5% of the national student body?belong to loosely affiliated gangs. The gang members call themselves iljin ("top rankers") and are involved in organized bullying, extortion and sometimes sex crimes. The Education Ministry says Jong's findings are exaggerated, but officials established a task force...