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Arthur Maass, Thomson Professor of Government, said he was "delighted" with Shapiro's appointment. "He's clearly the best man available...
...Biomhecistry and radical war critic, asked that Noam Chomsky be invited to speak. Most students supported the suggestion: one dissenter thought Chomsky's "ideological position would turn a lot of people off." The students voted to invite Chomsky before the two Faculty members of the group-Peretz and James Thomson, assistant professor of History-arrived at the meeting. Both were lukewarm but willing to invite Chomsky; however, trading one radical for one Republican, they pressed the group to also invite Rep. Donald Riegle (R.Mich.). So Riegle spoke-on the numbers of Americans dying and the amounts of American money being...
Other speakers at the Harvard Teach-In will be: James C. Thomson, former staff member of the National Security Council and now assistant professor of History; Bella Abzug, the flamboyant Democratic Congresswoman from New York; Stanley Hoffmann, professor of Government; Walter Pincus, former staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; and Cynthia K. Frederick, former Harvard teaching fellow and recent visitor to North and South Vietnam...
...Samuel P. Huntington, Thomson Professor of Government, said the news was "hardly a surprise," although the Kyodo News Service report from Japan, which said the invasion used paratroopers rather than ground troops, did surprise...
...obverse of this revolutionary perspective is a conservative world-view which underlies black nationalist ideology. Slavery, repression, and defeat have driven the black nationalist into a kind of "apartheid," which dangerously tends toward counter-revolutionary racial exclusiveness. As Tom Nairn, following E.P. Thomson, so judiciously observed of the British working class: "Such 'apartheid' was the necessary pre-condition of the conservative class-hierarchy. It was only the systematic fostering of this sense of irremediable and inherited difference, of social exclusion felt (even if not intellectually assented to) as a fact of nature. This was one of the most powerful weapons...