Word: telexing
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...23rd signer of the confidential telex was Matina S. Horner, president of Radcliffe and another member of the Time party...
...disagree" with Horner's AWACS stance. "I very much would defend her night to speak out on the issue." If anything, Horner went out of her way to disassociate the University from her lobbying effort. She was the only signer who did not include her institutional affiliation on the telex...
...excuse Horner's action because it avoided besmirching the name of fair Radclife is to miss the ethical boat entirely. Her lobbying is questionable precisely because it was an individual effort, compelled by no institutional imperatives. As The New Republic reported last week, the Riyadh telex was but one element in a massive Saudi lobbying effort for the AWACS sale--an effort targeted and American corporations anxious to secure lucrative contracts with the Saudis. The corporate leaders accompanying Horner clearly felt a need to advance their corporate interests; that does not make their lobbying excusable, but it does make...
...most accounts, the executive who first presented the telex idea on the evening of October 27--Theodore Brophy, Chief executive officer of General Telephone and Electronics--acted in an effort to prove to the Saudis that they had acted wisely in dropping GTE from their boycott list. No such institutional pressures worked upon Radcliffe's president; "I can't even imagine how my signing could affect the institution," she says...
Only one other member of the Time tour--Vernon Jordan, then head of the National Urban League--acted without institutional constraints. Jordan refused to sign the telex. Horner says she does not know why Jordan, now a law partner in a Washington, D.C. law firm, tells a different story...