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Despite President Bok's recent statement on gift policy, the administration's agreement, which allows a plaque in the library to acknowledge that the funds were given in Engelhard's memory, shows that it is possible to use moral criteria without embarrassing or compromising the University. Engelhard, an industrialist whose political and financial participation in South Africa directly supported the apartheid regime, is hardly an appropriate figure for memorialization by a school of public policy. The administrators at the Kennedy School who accepted the compromise worked out by its committee on gifts showed a concern for moral responsibilities...
...parks, hospitals, street lighting and such could scarcely enter a civilized mind. The ever wandering human species recognized roads as obvious necessities soon after man began meandering across the earth. Later, mechanical wonders that aided travel were put in the same category. Today every ranking industrial nation nurtures the use of cars, buses and airplanes. Along with these, railroads are treated as indispensable in every well-developed country-except...
...channels of telemetry and which channels it must have access to for purposes of verifying compliance?and therefore which channels must not be encrypted, or transmitted in code.) Warnke and Earle were instructed to raise the issue with Semyonov in Geneva. Semyonov complained that the U.S. was trying to use SALT for purposes of espionage rather than verification. Just before Vance was due to meet with Gromyko in Moscow last October, Warnke and Earle raised the issue with Semyonov again: a common understanding accompanying the treaty must spell out that some telemetry is relevant to some provisions of SALT...
Vance was never able to use his fallback instructions. Instead of making a counteroffer, the Soviets curtly, categorically rejected both the U.S. comprehensive proposal and the "Vladivostok deferral" alternative?the first because it would have sharply cut existing Soviet programs while leaving U.S. forces unscathed; the second because it deferred the issue of the cruise missile, which the Soviets
...that, if Harvard does not divest, it can at least be relied upon to use its influence as shareholder in a morally sensitive rather than in a cynical and irresponsible manner. Neil Koblitz '69 Assistant Professor of Mathematics