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...seems unbelievable that a President who tells us that peaceful dissent is good can accept a "hardhat" award from the construction workers of New York in view of their recent bombardment of war protesters...
There is no doubt that Agnew has got his thoughts through to the people, but last week his quotient of pithies and pungents was notably lowered. In Detroit he condemned as "emotionaries" those who espouse hysterical dissent, but found reasonable disagreement to be a national necessity. In Washington he renewed his charges of antiwar bias against some major newspapers and TV networks, but defended the freedom of the press, asserting that "Government and the press are natural adversaries." He also argued for a lowering of the voting age to 18. Said Agnew: "I believe that once our young people...
...White House source insists that "there isn't any direct rein" on Agnew. The closest thing to any sort of curbing came when Nixon obliquely suggested to Agnew that he broaden his topics beyond dissent and the media. Nixon had his own speechwriters send Agnew some material on foreign policy, the welfare program and postal reform; Agnew was duly heard from in public on all three subjects...
With those words, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russia's greatest living novelist, last week lashed out at what has become perhaps the most sinister aspect of the current Soviet crackdown on internal dissent: the confinement of dissidents in mental institutions on the grounds that they are mentally unbalanced. Said Solzhenitsyn in his protest statement, which was circulated to Western newsmen in Moscow: "If this were only the first case! But it has become a fashion, a devious method of reprisal without determining guilt when the real cause is too shameful to be stated...
...holiday mood. But the atmosphere is even more festive and more exciting inside. For here, the unique heady sense of joint action has taken hold, the camaraderie of the common cause. Tables where coeds sell pamphlets-Marx, Marcuse, Che. Other tables with various buttons and badges of dissent. Posters. Proclamations-demands addressed to the President of the United States, to the Governor of the state, the spelling a trifle erratic. Everywhere, the calls to specific action: organize transport, line up pickets, circulate petitions. It has often been noted that in times of grief or stress, doing concrete things, even small...