Word: womacks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While abridgement of speaking rights is far less intense than in the '60s, "my sense is that there is more heckling in the last few years than in the few years before that," says Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics John Womack Jr. "It goes up and down depending on the intensity of public concern over one or another issue and the intensity of organization by one or another political group on campus...
Others, though, doubt that there is anything but a consensus at Harvard about protecting free speech, noting that most of Weinberger's hecklers were not Harvard students. Womack, who calls Weinberger representative of this country's "frivolously malevolent policies" in Latin America, says he feels the entire Faculty opposes "deliberate efforts to drown out somebody...
...profit, California-based organization consists of faculty members in universities across the country who are concerned with human rights and U.S. policy in the region. Among its directors are Thomas Professor of divinity Harvey G. Cox Jr. and Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics John Womack...
...Barry M. Lester, assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical school, travelled to Nicaragua and El Salvador in the June group as the token physician at the request of Womack...
Cherbrikov: Well, if we can't neutralize Womack, then I suggest much more drastic action. We must get that guy, that Polish history teacher...what is his name, oh yes, Pipes, back to Washington as soon as possible. That is our only hope. Otherwise the Revolution is lost in Cambridge. I'll get my boys on it right away...