Word: missing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Bowie disputed Miss Vogel's testimony. "In my judgment," he said, "anyone in that position [of the photograph] must surely have been in the crowd at the time of the actual disruption." But in the absence of further evidence, there is no way to check either claim...
...these ideologues, steeped in the rhetoric of unremitting resistance and supreme sacrifice, cave in so ignominiously? "It was a good deal," said the soft-spoken Miss Alpert. Had they gone to trial, she could have received 65 years in jail. Melville faced up to 390 years, and Hughey 25 years. Under the bargain made with the prosecution, most of the charges concerning the actual planting of bombs contained in the 19-count indictment were dismissed. Melville-who also admitted one bombing-can now get a maximum...
Last fall the board tried to fire Miss Davis, citing resolutions going back to 1940 that barred Communists from the faculty. Taking its cue from recent decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court, a Los Angeles superior court held those resolutions unconstitutional. While Miss Davis kept on teaching, Governor Reagan and his not-so-Silent Majority of regents mounted a campaign of invective, to which she vigorously responded in kind. If Young decides to reappoint her, says conservative Regent John Canaday, "all hell's going to break loose...
Appropriate Criteria. In February, the regents ordered a "blue-ribbon committee" of U.C.L.A. faculty members to investigate charges that Miss Davis was propagandizing her students and making fiery public speeches. Last month the panel reported its findings to the regents -and apparently gave them no grounds for dismissal. The philosophy department has endorsed her reappointment after the most extensive review of academic qualification "ever conducted in such a case...
Even then, the decision to permit employees to miss work without toss of pay was left to supervisors. The University qualified each employee's right to engage in political activities as "acts of conscience relating to our country's involvement in Southeast Asia." How was a supervisor supposed to objectively judge another employee's conscience; what criteria was to be used...