Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Last Monday night two students appeared at my door with a Xeroxed copy of two letters. The first was a letter from H-R SDS to the Director of he CFIA, inviting the CFIA to join in a debate over its "right to exist"; the second was the CFIA Director...
The students who gave me the Xerox copy said that they were not committed for or against the CFIA, but intended to attend the SDS forum, which was to be held in lieu of a debate, in order to become more informed about the issue. They explained that there would...
It occurred to me that people who were not, in fact, committed to the SDS position would not be likely to distribute its handbills. It also occurred to me, as I read the Director's letter, that the student had misrepresented the CFIA's position. The Director says: "In view...
Indications were that these two students were SDS supporters, predetermined against the CFIA, who had assumed the role of uncommitted observers, in order to get other uncommitted students to attend the meeting. A deception, however, must be consistent if it is to deceive; this shabby attempt at deception, betrayed by...
On the heels of such a disingenuous invitation, I could only expect that the forum would be equally disingenuous. The declared object of the forum, to decide whether the CFIA should be abolished, can certainly never be achieved without the presence of the CFIA to present its defense. Given the...