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...troops, the Communists last week launched a new offensive in South Viet Nam. The North Vietnamese and the Pathet Lao continued a threatening drive in Laos. Simultaneously, the North Vietnamese managed to scare the precarious new government of Cambodia. In the U.S., there are signs of reawakening dissent over the war. They have appeared in the U.S. Senate and at the Viet Nam Moratorium Committee and in such unexpected places as the Massachusetts legislature and Governor's office...
Reagan makes no secret of being a hard-liner against campus violence, but he bridles at the accusation that he has cut the university's budget to "punish dissent." Reagan points out that the operating budget has increased 46% since he moved to Sacramento. Meantime, prophecies that low budgets would force campuses to close, students to be turned away and professors to quit have all proved false. The university has continued to expand...
...pervasive, as the S. S. of pre-war Germany. (The term's accuracy depends on the distinction that a state that is not technically fascist can use fascistic tactics.) Julian Bond's discovery of four years ago-that an American can be black and an American can dissent, but no American had better compound these two crimes-has become exiomatic today...
...time when the emotional politics of confrontation has moved from the streets to the courtroom, it is the exceptional judge who can remain dispassionate. Federal Judge James E. Doyle, of Wisconsin's western district, has done just that-under most difficult circumstances: cases involving student dissent and campus unrest. His decisions have protected the individual rights of students, even while underscoring their obligation to respect...
...Columbia confrontation is by now a familiar classic of student dissent. Yet Roger Kahn, a 42-year-old New Yorker who spent many months interviewing the participants, has turned the 1968 spring uprising into a thoughtprovoking, if slightly Wagnerian drama. His book is both broader and more perceptive than the accounts that were rushed into print at the time...