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The Dean announced that a list of all sponsored contract research in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for the past year would be distributed in the coming weeks to each member of the Faculty. Next Fall, notification of contract grants would be published periodically in *The Gazette*. Finally, in accordance with the Faculty legislation of April 11, 1972, the Dean reported on the Faculty Council's vote to dissolve a Standing Committee of the Faculty, the Committee on the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History and Middle Eastern Studies. The functions of that committee were to be carried on henceforth by a sub-committee of the Committee on Middle Eastern Studies, and the membership of that sub-committee

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In each case, the Faculty member involved was asked for his or her own preference concerning retirement. In some cases the other tenured members of the department were asked for their opinion. All the information was compiled and reported to the President, and in most cases a specific recommendation accompanied the report.

Professor Marglin noted the recent escalation of the Vietnamese war and the widespread student reaction to government policy on this matter. Although he recognized that most students and faculty members would not want a formal suspension of work such as had been undertaken two years before, he asked the President whether he believed that individual members should make alternative arrangements for those students who were following their consciences by devoting great amounts of time to protesting the war and who were thereby jeopardizing their academic standing.

The President expressed the opinion that it was up to each faculty of the University to decide how to handle academic requirements, since such decisions were the faculty's responsibility. Depending upon the amount of academic work left to be done for students in a given faculty, different faculties might respond in a variety of ways. The President was willing to state his own personal view if Professor Marglin wished to hear that.

Professor Marglin said he would be very interested in hearing the President's own position on this matter.

The President stated that unless there were very compelling circumstances, he personally would be opposed to doing away with academic requirements. In most cases he thought an accommodation could be made which would preserve, in some meaningful fashion, any academic requirements that remained to be filled. In addition, his experience as a dean of another school in the University at the time of the Cambodian episode had convinced him and other members of that faculty that some procedure needed to be developed that would more closely tailor alternative procedures for fulfilling academic requirements to the needs of those who were actually engaged in some substantial protest along the lines suggested by Professor Marglin. It had been the President's experience that many of the students who had postponed completing their requirements had not been actually engaged in such an effort.

Professor Kelman observed that in recent days the relationship to the University and to the Faculty of Mr. Henry Kissinger, formerly Professor of Government and currently National Security Adviser to President Nixon, had been raised. Because the issues involved seemed to Professor Kelman to include important moral questions, he felt personally compelled to take a stand on the matter, but found it very difficult to arrive at a position without knowledge of the specific facts. He asked whether it was correct that the Government Department was holding a Chair open for Mr. Kissinger and had assured him of reappointment after the Presidential election in November. Professor Kelman also thought it would be useful for the Faculty to know whether the procedures being employed in regard to Mr. Kissinger were the same as for all Faculty members taking leaves of absence.

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The President was fully certain that Mr. Kissinger had re-
signed from the Faculty when he had decided to extend his absence from the
University beyond his two year leave of absence. The President was almost
certain that Professor Kissinger's case had been treated the same as that
of all individuals on leaves of absence, although he was also seventy-five
percent sure that the Chair occupied by Mr. Kissinger had not been filled.
The President stated that he had no personal knowledge of any agreements be-
tween the Government Department and Mr. Kissinger on the possibility of his
returning to the Faculty. The President wondered if any member of the Gov-
ernment Department cared to comment on the question.

Professor Beer, a member of the Government Department, stated
that the President's account had been correct according to his recollection.
The department had discussed the matter at the time of Mr. Kissinger's resig-
nation and had unanimously expressed the warm hope that he would return to
the department after his service in Washington was completed. The Chair
which Mr. Kissinger had occupied had not been filled, but depending upon
what happened after the Presidential election in the fall, steps would be
taken to fill it.

Professor MacEwan asked whether it was correct that holding
a Chair open for two years after a resignation was a departure from
normal policy.

Dean Dunlop responded that there had been precedents in some
departments for keeping Chairs vacant as long as a decade. He did not re-
gard a two year lapse in filling a Chair an unusual circumstance.

There were no further questions.

The President called for new business; there was none.

The President recognized Professor Kaiser to speak on behalf
of the Docket Committee.

Professor Kaiser noted that on Item III the title of the
pamphlet had been incorrectly listed on the Agenda. The correct title
should have been *Regulations for Students in Harvard and Radcliffe Col-
leges*. Professor Kaiser reminded the Faculty that the Agenda for the
meeting was very full and asked all members to keep their remarks brief.
The Docket Committee hoped that action could be completed on Item V by
5:45 p.m. If this did not occur, Professor Kaiser expressed his inten-
tion to rise at 5:55 p.m. and ask that the meeting time be extended to
6:30 p.m.

Item I (q.v.) was then in order.

On behalf of the Faculty Council, Professor Bogorad was
recognized to present Item I.

Professor Bogorad pointed out that a copy of the proposed

DERRYMORE

R.D. 2 • ONEONTA, NEW YORK 13820

July 13, 1972,

Dear Henry,

I don't know if anyone keeps you abreast
of these matters, but you are not forgotten by
the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Either side!
Obviously you are to pay them no heed, and to
pursue, as I gather you have in any event decided,
the Spanish proverb that "Living well is the
best revenge."

I can imagine with what tension and hope
you watch events leading from or to a peace
settlement. It is not the fashion, but I pray
for it.

Best,

Pat Moynihan

Hon. Henry A. Kissinger

EXECUTIVE

C066
F02/C066

KISSINGER, HENRY A.

## Personal

July 17, 1973

Dear Henry,

I met this morning with Mrs. Gandhi and put to her your suggestion that she might send someone over periodically for a *tour d'horizon* of the sort you have been having with the British. This was the first of five matters I raised with her, and she had had a fortnight's notice of my intent. Even so, she was evasive, explaining that if someone were to go, all manner of questions would be raised as to Why. I allowed that the meetings you now have, while not "secret", nonethe- less took place with no public notice of which I was aware. We left it at that.

It is not the suspicion around here that bothers me: it is the way suspicion blinds them to their own interest. But I see no alternative to a waiting game. We are not, in that sense, in any hurry.

But I do very much appreciate your having made the offer.

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
The White House
Washington, D.C.

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Tel-Aviv, November 2, 1972

Prof. Henry Kissinger
The White House
Washington D.C.

Dear Sir,

Enclosed, please find the English translation of
a poem about you by Haim Hefer, a well-known Israeli
poet, which was written in Hebrew and published last
week in our newspaper.

I hope you will enjoy reading it as did our readers,
whose many favourable comments to this particular poem
promted us to have it translated and sent to you.

With best wishes,

Sincerely,

Noah Mozes

Publisher

Jewish Publication
Nachem Yonah

Sincerely,

With best wishes,

promoted to have it translated and sent to you,
whose many favourable comments to this particular book
I hope you will enjoy reading if you read our readers,
with great pleasure.

week in our newspaper,
book, which was written in Hebrew and published last
a poem about you byaim Hefer, a well-known writer!
Enclosed, please find the English translation of

Dear Sir,

Washington D.C.
The White House
Prof. Henry Fleischer

Tel--Aviv, November 3, 1975

Management and Editorial:
Tel Aviv, 8 Yehuda Motor B.P.O. 100 Tel Aviv 3-0000

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OF AMERICA

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PROFESSOR KISSINGER

by Haim Hefer

I like that clever Yekke* with his crafty little grin
He hurries down from jets, and hop ! he bustles straight back in;
Your man in Moscow and Peking, and also in Saigon
With time to make the concert by our band in Washington.
He trouble-shoots in Bonn today, or Berlin, Germany,
Tomorrow he's in Paris, in eye-catching company.
In some new London discotheque he lightly downs champagne
And then he's off to Tokyo on business again.
Oh thou who makest peace on high
When do you get to close an eye ?

I don't think we've yet figured what alone this man achieves
I don't think we've yet realized just what a spell he weaves
Americans or Vietnamese, Chinese and Russians too
Bewitched by smiles and courtesy at every interview.
This week on your TV screen with black briefcase held so tight
As if the blueprints for the peace were his own copyright.
As if ancient Jewish dybbuk had him firmly in its thrall
As if the prophet were demanding that those words he should recall:
"No nation against nation; they shall study war no more"...
For making words like these work is what Kissinger is for.
And watching him in action, we expect to hear the news
That nations may one day not lift their sword against the Jews.

* Yekke - Jew of German origin

The Times - ten of ten in origin

That nations may one day not fill their award against the enemy.

And watching him in action, we expect to pour the news

For making words like these work is what Kießling is for.

"No nation against nation; they shall a body be no more"...

As if the prophet were demanding that these words he should recite:

Ya if ancient devices dawd and his timely in its thrust

Ya if the blueprints for the peace were his own copyright.

This week on John TV screen with black&witeae held so right
Rewited by smile and courtesy at every interview.

Americans or Vietnamese, Chinese and Japanese too.

I don't think we've yet realized that what a shell he possesses
I don't think we've yet figured what alone this man achieves

Oh then who would meet peace on high

In some new London disenthuasie he lightly downs catherines
Tomorrow he's in Paris, in eye-catching company.

He promises—above all, in Bonn today, or Berlin, Germany,

With time to make the concert by our hand in Washington.

John, man in Moscow and Leningrad, and also in Berlin

The parties team from Jeta, and job ! the chartere straight back in;

I like that cever Yekke with the crafty little chin

by Haim Beler

PROFESSOR KIEZINGER

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For Vietnam peace is nearing, soldiers back from overseas
With their dead and with their injured and their painful memories;
And many who survived know the Professor got them out
And generations now shall learn what this peace was about.
And Kissinger's name should ever stand in archives and records
Of nations who will not now beat their ploughshares into swords;
The story of a man whose aim and passion was for peace,
Who by his smile and reasoning brought Powers to their knees,
Who breached the walls of China and who crossed Urals too
And did more for his country than ten generals could do.
A long line of great rabbis the Professor's past must show
- Salvation was their business every century or so -
Messiah's or philosophers ? That no one will agree
Rebels, then, or scientists ? who knows what they may be.
But Kissinger! A man - of gold - a diamond in our eyes,
No man deserves more than he does to win the Nobel Prize.

Professors are not all, it seems, as woolly as they say
For they can tell the wheat from chaff, and which wind blows which way.
And be it to your taste or not, when you watch such magicians
Peace looks much too important to be left only to politicians.