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...words of an intimate, to "get the country's pride back up" and appeal to its patriotism. But the manner in which he did it seemed deliberately designed to divide the country further. He made a glib, not to say demagogic, connection between foreign aggression and domestic dissent. Said he: "We live in an age of anarchy both abroad and at home...
...trial, which ended last week, was regarded as an important test of growing dissent in the military. About 50 antiwar publications have appeared on various bases during the past two years; servicemen have marched in off-base peace parades and requested permission to hold discussion groups in their barracks...
UNTIL recently, U.S. corporations have seemed almost immune to the outbreaks of violent dissent that have roiled universities, ghettos and city streets. In three tumultuous April weeks, strident conflict has shattered that old tranquillity. Organized activists-protesting the Viet Nam War, pollution and what they consider to be industrial irresponsibility-have disrupted the annual meetings of at least nine major companies. Angry epithets have converted some stockholder gatherings into social battlegrounds. To disperse unruly demonstrators, helmeted police have used tear gas, and company guards have sprayed disabling Mace. Last week, the confrontations, at four corporate meetings, reached an acrimonious crescendo...
...statement reads: "This Faculty expresses its support for the nationwide non-violent university action in opposition to the Vietnam War and to its recent tragic extension, as well as to the alarming signs of repression of political dissent in this country...
...exists in its justifiable rejection of moral tyranny on the part of one man over those under his power. It is therefore an ironic nullification of that spirit to force others to assume the same method of protest over an individual's privilege to choose his own means of dissent...