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Revolutionary Activist violence had to take this new development into account. No longer could repression for progress merely be directed against bankers and landowners. There were new potential enemies, masses of them. An Activist revolutionary scenario would have to contain the expected fascist reaction. Now repression might well have to be employed against small farmers and shop-owners and Portuguese peasant soldiers...
Thus, the second impulse in the scenario is the moral relativism which we have inherited from the sixties. It is the inheritance of an era which apotheosized those who destroyed and defiled under the aegis of a higher morality. It is also the inheritance of a press and an intelligentsia which defended the thesis: if the end is noble enough, unusual and base means may be utilized for its attainment...
...most juvenile and ineffectual in the world. Italy has a large communist party, including, rumor has it, most of the gondoliers on Venice's canals, but the party shares the capricious instability characteristic of all Italian politics. A few years ago, a popular film appeared here presenting a scenario in which the Communists won a majority in the general elections and then, in despair in having actually to take power, accused the liberal parties of rigging the election to force them into that political hot seat. Rhetoric riddled with both stubbornness and naivete dominated the festival's discussions about putting...
Because of Agnew's stand, according to this scenario, the constitutional questions have become more significant. Particularly relevant is a pending appeal by Otto Kerner, a former Illinois Governor and federal judge convicted of bribery and fraud. Kerner is appealing, in part, on grounds that he was illegally tried while not yet impeached as a judge, an issue not raised before the trial. The Justice Department, which will oppose Kerner's appeal, must mesh its constitutional arguments with whatever stand it takes in Agnew's case. As this requires more time, the Baltimore grand jury will consider...
Prejudging. Under either scenario, Agnew's apparent determination to remain in office would present Nixon with a difficult political problem if the Vice President is indicted. The President, of course, has no authority to remove him since Agnew was elected to office by the people. And, partly because of his difficulties over Watergate. Nixon probably would not find it feasible to press any public demand that Agnew resign. Such an effort would also make it appear that he was short-circuiting the legal system and prejudging Agnew as guilty. Agnew could continue to carry out his constitutional duty...