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PRESIDENT Nixon's decision to invade Cambodia caused an extraordinary upwelling of dissent within the U.S.-a surge of dismay and protest that Nixon himself did not fully anticipate. Campuses responded with all forms of protest, including mass strikes and a quickly organized march on Washington after four students were killed during a demonstration at Kent State University in Ohio. In that tragic week, the President acknowledged that he needed direct lines of communication with the nation's campuses. He soon enlisted two highly regarded university administrators, Chancellor Alexander Heard of Vanderbilt and President James Cheek of largely...
Fifty-eight percent of the students [in a nationwide poll] agreed with a statement that, compared to a year before, the United States had become a highly repressive society, intolerant of dissent. Among the evidences of repression often cited are: "police brutality," in a variety of forms ranging from hostility toward demonstrators to the alleged unjustifiable assaults on the Black Panther Party; curfews; prohibitions against assembly of more than a limited number of persons; sledgehammer statements by public officials impugning the motives of dissent; and discouragement of outspokenness on grounds of protocol or propriety. The arrest of students and faculty...
...Tuesday I circulated a petition against the war in Viet Nam and later signed one against our local supermarket; on Thursday I listened to Simon and Garfunkel records while reading instructions for my self-cleaning oven; on Friday I read Dr. Spock's treatise on dissent in the morning, then checked his Infant and Child Care in the afternoon regarding the baby's rash; on Saturday night I discussed Soul on Ice with my baby sitter before going to a party where the only pot was the one my husband is developing...
...Terkel's omnifaceted study of the last major societal breakdown in the U.S. seems remarkably relevant to 1970. For those who despair of the system, there is the sobering view of what ensues when the system collapses. For those who cannot understand why the system inspires so much dissent, there is a harrowing display of America's ingrown inequities...
Warren Burger viewed the decision with extreme distaste. In dissent, he argued that the Constitution guarantees the right of counsel only during "criminal prosecutions," which for him do not include preliminary hearings. Implying that the court's previous decisions on the subject were shaky at best, Burger said: "I will not join in employing recent cases rather than the Constitution to bootstrap ourselves into a result. By placing a premium on 'recent cases' rather than the language of the Constitution, the court makes it dangerously simple for future courts to operate as a 'continuing constitutional convention...