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Hoover shaped our history as few individuals have, and his Bureau will continue that shaping. As long as the government seeks to suppress dissent and destroy movements for social change, J. Edgar Hoover's spirit will be with...
...murders of the NATO technicians set off a renewed army crackdown on dissent. Since then, 107 leftists have been arrested. Generals now hold key positions in the police, the state radio and television networks and the government-run airline. Some Turkish intellectuals feel that the military has been somewhat excessive in its zeal to preserve order. The army commander of Ankara, for instance, closed down a display of pictures of President Nixon's China visit, sponsored by the Turkish-American Association. Showings of two U.S. movie classics, Citizen Kane and The Grapes of Wrath, were halted because their themes...
...reporters that a major fear he shares with the President is that "domestic protest in this country reaches a level where Hanoi simply awaits the collapse of our domestic position." And it has by now almost become a truism that the President, if faced with the threat of massive dissent or disruption in the United States, will have to rethink his prosecution of the war. And so we must determine how best to create the domestic situation that will force Nixon to meet our demands...
...stock (as was Kodak, when it was forced to introduce a minority hiring program) or by some accident of geography (like the one which places Polaroid within easy reach of Harvard) can be pressed to reform itself. As Campaign GM demonstrated last year, even a breath of dissent produces a gesture of reform. Every so often a Black could be elected to a board of directors or an alum might ask himself if the old school doesn't have a point when it urges a new conception of civic responsibility. Not much for not much--but better than nothing. Besides...
...exposed himself in his professional capacity to public criticism. But when this criticism exceeds the bounds of rational debate and takes the form of harassment and emotional attacks on his person, then we believe that the dissidents have misused their right to speak out. We oppose this form of dissent-and suggest that those students who have taken this approach consider alternative means for furthering their cause. This statement does not endorse the contents of the article of Professor Herrnstein's CRR complaint. Deborah Heartland Sam Anderson and 95 students...