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Friday, December 21, 1979 21
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
ADL Reports Growing Infusion of Funds
from Arab Sources to U.S. Universities
NEW YORK — A grow-
ing infusion of Arab pet-
rodollars into American
universities is posing a
threat to academic freedom
and integrity, according to a
report by the Anti-
Defamation League of Bnai
Brith.
The report notes thiit
more than a dozen schools
have been offered large
sums of money — in the
form of gifts, grants and luc-
rative contracts — from
Arab governments and
other Arab-oriented
sources.
The report said that
Georgetown University, the
University of Southern
California, Duke Univer-
sity, New York University
and Syracuse University
are among those which have
accepted monies or con-
tracts.
Among schools which
have not, or which with-
drew from negotiations,
are Massachusetts Insti-
tute of Technology, the
University of Pennsyl-
vania, and a "Midwest
University Consortium
for International Activi-
ties" — made up of
Michigan State Univer-
sity and the Universities
of Indiana, Illinois, Wis-
consin and Minnesota.
The consortium cancelled
a contract with Saudi
Arabia because a Jewish
professor was refused entry
to that nation; a deal be-
tween MIT and the Saudis
also collapsed over the issue
of religious discrimination.
The University of
Pennsylvania falls into both
categories — having ac-
cepted a $100,000 grant
from the Sultan of Oman to
promote Arab and Islamic
studies, but turned down a
lucrative proposal from
Libya, which has supported
international terrorists, for
the development of a cur-
riculum for teaching Middle
Eastern history and culture
in American secondary
schools.
The university said it
doubted "the wisdom of ac-
cepting foreign funding for
the development of cur-
ricula studying the history
and culture of the area from
which the funds are com-
ing."
The ADL report cites
the experience of the
University of Southern
California as a dramatic
example of "the potential
erosion of academic in-
tegrity in American uni-
versities as the price of
financial involvement
with Arab oil poten-
tates."
There, a former official of
the Saudi-controlled
Arabian-American Oil Co.
(Aramco) was appointed to
the $1 million Saudi-
endowed Faisal Chair one
month after his name was
suggested by the Saudi Fi-
nance Minister in a letter to
the university's president.
The letter further said that
future appointments would
be chosen "by the university
in consultation with the
Saudi Minister of Higher
Education."
The next steps at the uni-
versity were the establish-
ment of a Middle East Cen-
ter and a foundation to raise
money for the Center from
large U.S. corporations,
primarily those doing busi-
ness with Saudi Arabia. The
plan included proposals to
give the Center a voice in
appointing USC faculty to
courses on the Middle East
"even outside the center."
Following a furor on and
off campus, and condemna-
tion by a faculty senate
resolution, the plan was
modified to weaken the cen-
ter's power. Early this year,
the USC board of trustees
scrapped the entire contract
with the Middle East Cen-
ter and recommended set-
ting up an alternate entity
under full academic and fi-
nancial control of the uni-
versity.
At Georgetown Uni-
versity, according to the
report, the Center for
Contemporary Arab
Studies, established in
1975 shortly after a
$100,000 grant from the
Sultan of Oman, has on
its board the foreign
ministers of Oman and
the United Arab Emi-
rates, a deputy prime
minister of Egypt, gov-
ernment qfficials of
Saudi Arabia, Libya,
Jordan and Qatar, and
former Sen. J. William
Fulbright, who has been
a registered foreign
agent for Saudi Arabia
and the United Arab
Emirates.
Georgetown, the report
goes on to say, accepted
$200,000 from Saudi
Arabia; $425,000 from Jor-
dan; $50,000 each from
Egypt and Qatar, and
$350,000 from the United
Arab Emirates — these
ADL Resolutions
Focus on Bias
Israel, Cambodia
NEW YORK — The
Anti-Defamation League of
Bnai Brith has urged that
the president and Congress
should make it mandatory
for all those nominated for
high public office requiring
Senate confirmation to re-
sign from discriminatory
social clubs as a condition of
office.
A resolution involving
Israel urged President
Carter to "substantially
increase economic and
military aid to Israel for
fiscal 1981, above the
constant level that has
been provided since
1976."
The ADL urged that in
addition to the $70 million
in food and other aid al-
ready pledged by the U.S.
government, there be re-
newed efforts "urging all
nations of the world, includ-
ing the USSR, the People's
Republic of China, Vietnam
and Cambodia to cooperate
and assist with relief efforts
for the Cambodian people."
grants representing two-
thirds of the center's fund-
ing — and other funding
from Mobil Oil, Texaco,
Chase Manhattan Bank,
Citibank and the U.S. gov-
ernment. The university
also accepted a $750,000
grant from Libya for the
endowment of the al-
Mukhtar Chair of Arab Cul-
ture. The first incumbent to
the Chair was Hisham
Sharabi, a personal friend of
PLO leader Yasir Arafat.
The ADL report calls the
implications of
Georgetown's contracts
"profoundly significant" be-
cause-the school "graduates
more U.S. foreign service
officers than any other uni-
versity in the country."
Quoted in the report is an
article in the May-June,
1979, issue of Aramco
World on gifts and grants,
which the magazine said in-
cluded:
• An annually endowed
chair at Harvard from the
government of Kuwait;
• A total of' $25,000 from
the Sultan of Oman for the
appointment of a professor
of Middle Eastern science at
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