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There are no plans to change this policy of non-intervention towards South African apartheid, Tillinghaft continued, "but this is up to the State Department, and I wouldn't rule out the possibility of a change in policy...
...Tillinghaft explained the transfer from the Harvard Observatory to the Smithsonian Observatory was based on pragmatic, not racial reasons. "Even though the Smithsonian interest in the Boyden Observatory is quite light right now, Harvard gave us the administrative and logistic problems because with some 40 observatories all over the world we have a network can handle these problems," he said...
...even if Harvard has transfered its logistic responsibilities to the Smithsonian Institute, both of them will continue to be represented at policy making meetings of the Boyden council, Tillinghaft said, Harvard has not severed its affiliation with Boyden Observatory through the transfer and will continue to send research teams to the Observatory...
...issues which emerged from the conflicting opinions of Usher and Tillinghaft was what the possible reaction of the South African government might be if the Observatory made any attempt to desegregate. Usher said that "they probably wouldn't kick us out because the Observatory is a feather in the cap of the local government. the Observatory is a useful link with Europe and the United States...
...Although Tillinghaft said that this was a possible interpretation, it was important to retain an intellectual link with South Africa; the implication was that if desegregation was pushed too hard, the astronomers would be expelled from the country entirely