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...view of this provocative, hurried, and clandestine build-up, the CRIMSON is forced to take the following steps: 1) We call upon Harvard Square officials to remove these offensive lights without delay. Refusal to do so will justify immediate further action. 2) We are seriously considering convening an emergency session of the Harvard Council on Undergraduate Affairs to consider these further steps. 3) Our forces have been put on a Stage Two ready-awareness footing. Small stones have been issued...
...which the information on the Soviet build-up was released had two obvious effects. On the one hand, it did not allow for the hysterical shouting about "immediate invasion" that would have occurred otherwise; On the other hand, it prevented people outside government circles from constructing policy alternatives for themselves...
...some of the hints and rumors that floated around the Capitol during the week before the blockade, and transformed them into concrete news stories. And if publishers were wary of attributing certain attitudes to the President or his advisors, they could at least have run information on the Soviet build-up either in speculative columns or as hints placed somewhere in the midst of longer articles; which is more or less what the New York Times did before the Bay of Pigs invasion...
...extent of his secret police apparatus. There is nowhere one can go to find out. This lack of information about Cuba has constantly made United States policies toward that country difficult to judge; and during the past week, combined with the suddenness of information about the Soviet military build-up, it rendered public opinion utterly irrelevant...
...informed public opinion is one of the essential things that a democracy must continue to strive for. By withholding information about the Soviet build-up, about the United States reaction, and about the scope of Castro's internal policy, the press displayed a lack of confidence in its readers, and made of government policy something sacrosanct. When the press and the public failed to ask whether the Administration could have adopted different tactics toward the imposing of the blockade--or whether it might have displayed a different attitude towards the Castro regime in general--the President became, for a week...