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...more important for universities today than stability. Civility becomes increasingly vital if university people-faculty, students and administration-are to discuss instead of demand, reason rather than shout, mutually respect rather than mutually recriminate, depend on ideas for persuasion rather than four-letter words, and confer with rather than confront each other...
...product itself? In practical terms, any sort of Volstead-style prohibition of cigarettes would be impossible to legislate, and any such legislation impossible to enforce. For all the difficult moral and legal questions involved, the anti-tobacco forces consider a drive on marketing to be the best way to confront the cigarette...
...what can be the basis of direct negotiations? No, I am afraid the Israelis are more interested in holding on to their occupied territories than they are in finding a solution. The Israeli demand for face-to-face talks seems to me to be a flimsy excuse not to confront the real opportunity for a solution...
...University policeman circulated through the crowd of students apologizing for the police action and urging students not to confront the police...
Robert Tonis, Chief of the University Police, circulated through the crowd of students apologizing for the police action and urging students not to try to confront the police...