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...spent last week almost silently, though he promised to make no "unilateral withdrawal" from the verbal battlefield. A number of Cabinet members continued to take relatively conciliatory lines toward the opposition. Attorney General John Mitchell told a group of Philadelphia public-and parochial-school pupils that "unrest represents dissent, and dissent is a good thing because it brings change in our society. But it must be done in an attitude of respect for the rights of others." But in talking to some Duke University students, Mitchell stressed the associations between a few prominent antiwar leaders and foreign Communists...
That legal maneuver was hardly calculated to quiet dissent. Most of the protest, though, was aimed at Southeast Asia. The outcry was so intense that the Administration seemed to have reduced its room for military maneuver rather than extended it. McGeorge Bundy argued convincingly last week that the Cambodian action has been so rending that Nixon would not dare undertake anything like it again without congressional approval. Former Defense Secretary Clark Clifford, in a LIFE article appearing this week, took a sterner line toward the Administration and what he called Nixon's "curious obsession about Viet Nam and Southeast...
...Finer, a first-year student at Brooklyn Law School, underwent some kind of conversion in going to work for Eikenberry. "I considered myself really conservative," he says. "I probably would have voted for Nixon in '68, but I didn't register. Now, there is so much dissent, and Nixon doesn't seem to respond. I'm tired of just sitting back...
...against the students. They have a right to dissent. I hear they are going to Washington to lobby, and I think that's good. That's the way it should be done. But we just can't let them burn down buildings the way they do. We can't let them close down colleges. What about the kids who want to go? We have to stop them before there's nothing left...
...indiscriminate -and unnecessary-use of mass firepower by armed officers and troops trying to control destructive, or disorderly crowds. In each case a basic tenet of all enforcement agencies was violated: apply the minimum amount of force required to accomplish the objective. In an age of mounting civil dissent, many more such situations seem inevitable, raising the question: How can mobs be controlled without killing anyone...