Borah Symposium 1970-79
April 23-25
Committee Chair: Tony Skrbek
“Population Growth vs. Ecology: The Facts of Life in a Closed System”
- John Hessel
Keynote Address: “World-wide Population and Pollution Problems”
- Daniel Schorr
“Ecology”
- Ralph Lapp
“Ecological Effects of the War in Southeast Asia”
- E. W. Pfeiffer
“Conservation and the Earth as an Ecosphere”
- Gary Soucie
(An Inquiry into Cultural Conflict as a Cause of Domestic Violence and International War)
March 4-6
Committee Chair: Robert E. Hosack, Political Science
“The Scope and Nature of World Cultural Conflicts”
- Alfred Lilienthal, Middle East expert
- Col. Harry Jackson, US Army
“Cultures & Counter Cultures”
- Robert Bellah, sociologist
- Roderic Gorney, psychiatrist
“Education and Cultural Conflict”
- Russell Kirk, conservative thinker
- Nat Hentoff, social critic
“Resolution of Conflicts in America”
- Saul Alinsky, professional radical
- Russell Kirk
“Cultural Conflicts in Asia, Africa and the Middle East”
- Thomas Molnar, political commentator on Africa
- Alfred Lilienthal on the Middle East
- Robert Bellah on Asia
- Nat Hentoff on American foreign involvement
- Col. Harry Jackson with a military view
“Cultural Conflicts as a Cause of War”
- Roderic Gorney and Thomas Molnar
(A discussion of current world crises as a cause of World War III)
February 29 - March 1
Committee Chair: Robert E. Hosack, Political Science
“Changing American Foreign Policy”
- Walter Judd
“How Can We Prevent Future Vietnams?”
- Tran Van Dinh, former Vietnam Ambassador to the U.S.
“The Automated Battlefield and Air War”
- Kenneth Kirkpatrick
“The Threat of Communism in the Americas”
- Juanita Castro, sister of Fidel Castro
“Ideological and Religious Conflicts as Barriers to Peace”
- Charles Frankel
“An Islamic View of the Middle East Conflict”
- Mr. M. A. Rauf
“An Israeli View of the Middle East Conflict”
- Samual Segev
- Gen. Carl von Horn
“The Current Crises in World Organization”
“Strengthening Collective Security: An American View of the Crises”
- Col. Amos Jordan
April 2-4
Committee Chair: Stanley W. Thomas, Campus Christian Center
“Senator William E. Borah and the Power of Congress in Policy Determination with Respect to War and Peace”
- Sen. Len B. Jordan
“POW Comments”
- John “Spike” Nasmyth
“Pressure Groups as Effective Expressions of Power in Policy Decisions with Respect to War and Peace”
- H. R. Mahood and Majid Khadduri
“Society's Responsibilities with Respect to War and Peace”
- Wilma Heide
“Economic Power and the Effect on War & Peace”
- Steve Heimer
- William Rusher
- Robert Smith
“Major World Powers and the Role of the United Nations in Providing Resolution of Conflicts to Achieve a Peaceful World”
- George L. Sherry
- Jerome Scolnick
February 5-7
Committee Chair: Harry Caldwell, Geography
“Presidential War-Making Powers”
- Aaron Wildavsky
- Elizabeth Haltzman
- Sen. James McClure
“The Role of the Media as a Pressure on the Presidency”
- Hugh Sidey
- Bill Hall
Other Participants:
- William A. Williams
- Sen. Mark Hatfield
- Raul Manglapus
January 18-23
Committee Chair: Harry Caldwell, Geography
- Samuel Huntington, specialist in foreign affairs
- Francis Fitzgerald, author
- Victor Marchetti
- Seymour Melman, Professor of Economics, Columbia Univ.
- Adm. Elmo Zumwalt
- Hon. Marjorie Holt, Congresswoman from Maryland
- Hon. Les Aspin, Congressman from Wisconsin
“1975 Report from Hanoi”
- Francis Fitzgerald
“The State of the U.S. Economy”
- Seymour Melman & Les Aspin
March 30 - April 1
Committee Chair: Jeanette Driskell, Education
- Eugene McCarthy, former Senator
- G. Warren Nutter, conservative economist
- Karl Hess, Libertarian, Goldwater speechwriter
- William Kunstler, lawyer
- Rep. Steve Symms (Idaho)
- Carl Jacklin, psychologist
- Benjamin Spock, pediatrician
- David Halberstam, journalist
March 22-24
Committee Chair: Amos Yoder, Political Science
- Senator Frank Church
- Herbert Scoville
- Bernard Feld
- Theodore Taylor
- Harold Agnew
- Douglas DeNike
- Philip Farley
- Roger Batzel
- R. J. Rummel
- Ernest L. Stanger
- Tommy Ambrose
- Sam Day
- Orval Hanson
- Robert C. Lewis
- Senator James McClure
- Alden Meinel
- Marjorie Meinel
- John Peavey
- Representative Steve Symms
April 10-11
Committee Chair: Raymond J. Miller, Agriculture
- Godfrey Binaisa
- Robert Moss
- Robert Maxim
- Igor S. Glagolev
- Rose Styron
- Eugenio Velasco
March 5-6
Committee Chair: Donald Haber, Civil Engineering
- Mansur Kikhia
- Richard Barnet
- Frank LaRoux
- Jacob Clayman
- Walt Rostow
- Hazel Denton
- Koichi Matsuura
- Senator Frank Church
- Charles Kindleberger, moderator