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...construction workers [May 25], the best thing that's happened in this country for a long time. I would advise some of the academic community and some other persons of less than mediocre common sense to help maintain order and to encourage political action instead of demonstrations, mobs, arson and destruction. A lot of us working people, military people and law enforcement people are waiting for enough excuse to join the construction workers...
...Arson is arson-whether on the campus...
...immediate cause of the rioting was the conviction last week of two young Maoist editors on charges of inciting murder, pillage and arson (sample quote: "Not one bourgeois will leave revolutionary Paris alive") in their newspaper The People's Cause, a shrill bimonthly with a circulation of 20,000. After the two young editors were arrested, French Philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre took over as editor. Two days before his predecessors were to be tried, Sartre presided over a protest meeting in the Latin Quarter and urged a crowd of 3,000 to unite in protest. Thunderous cheers went...
...administrators took a particularly hard line on so-called "street people"-non-students who help stir things up. Morris urged the legislators to find a constitutional way "to cleanse ourselves of them." President David D. Henry of the University of Illinois cited the "guerrilla hit-and-run tactics-bombing, arson and vandalism-of dedicated destroyers." He deplored the "delay between arrest and trial" of such activists, who usually are "free on bail and tend to remain in the area and participate in continuing events...
...paradoxical to watch these sincere and deeply concerned prophets of peace engage in so many acts of arson, vandalism and violence? I sometimes worry about my own generation...