Word: consulate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Epps informed the approximately 15 students identified by the University as being involved in the blockade that they face charges for putting South African Vice Consul Duke Kent-Brown "in physical fear of his safety...,[for having] participated in a forceable blockade," and for interfering with University police...
...addition, approximately three of the 15 will face an additional charge of having lied to Epps when they assured him "that the Vice Consul's speech would not be disrupted," the letter read...
...student also has been charged with having "attempted to obstruct" the vice consul by grabbing his arm, protesters said. It is not yet known who this student...
...majority--which like the protestors does not take issue with these facts--accepts the bizarre argument that restricting the vice consul's movement was justified by the protestor's own right to express their opposition to him. They consider his freedom of movement to have remained intact because his legs were not prevented from taking him out the only unblockaded door. We find such reasoning illogical and dangerous...
...students outraged by apartheid, demand that the South African vice consul exit the room through the front doors to the Science Center lobby, where he will see and hear the opposition of Harvard students to the policies of his government. A speaker from the African National Congress is waiting there to engage the vice consul in debate. To thwart any plan of shielding Mr. Kent-Brown from the free speech of others by spiriting him out the back doors, we are moving down to block these doors peacefully and non-violently. We have no intention of interfering with Mr. Kent...