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...suburbanites. America will be a little less polluted, but her interest in pollution will be to the detriment of other social problems. The economic gap between black and white rich and poor, will be worse or the same. American troops will be involved in prosecuting a war someplace else. Dissent of any kind against the established order will be forbidden. The police force will have developed efficient ways of immediately crushing any kind of uprising, physical or nonviolent, domestic or foreign...
...President Nixon said the incident should remind everyone that "when dissent turns to violence it invites tragedy...
...entire academic community to use this opportunity to go to the people and to bring home to the entire nation the meaning of the President's action. A massive, unprecedented display of dissent is required...
Miss Littlefield and Mr. Brooks are free to disagree with this reasoning and to make their dissent and their constructive views heard. For them to urge, however, a boycott of the examination on the grounds that many students have been exempted from parts or all of the exam for "arbitrary" reasons seems to be a rather arbitrary exercise of the right to express negative views...
Undoubtedly the dissent is receiving new publicity since the confrontation between the government and Dr. Nahun Goldmann, who was allegedly contacted by Nasser to hold talks, which the government refused because of Goldmann's political views. This event will tend to polarize and will undoubtedly force the government to publicly justify-if not modify-its policy. But there is no way to insure that this will happen...