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...support of a belief that the 1969 moratoriums induced the administration to put off escalation plans, he cited a memo from presidential appointments secretary Dwight Chapin to Magruder, published in Magruder's book, in which Chapin said that a November 3 presidential announcement of escalation would make it "hard to contain" the moratorium scheduled for November...
...stabbed in a clash among teenagers. That ugly incident prompted Republican Governor Francis Sargent to call up 450 National Guardsmen, who were stationed in armories in the event local and state police needed help. Democratic Mayor Kevin White was not consulted about the mini-mobilization. His office released a memo calling the Guard "inept, incompetent and ill-equipped." He feared another Kent State tragedy, even though the Massachusetts guardsmen were not issued firearms. The White House turned down a request from Sargent for federal troops, but later alerted regular Army paratroopers in Fort...
...acknowledged that publication of the memo may have what he termed a "chilling" effect on student registration, but denied that this had been the University's intent in distributing...
...response to a September 24 letter from Wylie, Steiner checked over the 1971 memo he had redistributed and said that court decisions had eliminated the Cambridge residency requirement...
Wylie said the new memo shows that the University "really wants to kill student registration. It won't matter this year," he said, "but it may affect next year's municipal elections...