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Although the trustees expressed hope that there would be continued involvement in patient care by Harvard and Tufts, it is unclear at this time whether Harvard will adhere to its earlier vow to withdraw its $8.2 million in grants and endowments if it were forced to relinquish the responsibility it held...
...remained unclear just how Popkin had come to be a scholar instead of others. Maybe Popkin's position with Harvard entitled him to this special status. Was immunity from testimony before grand juries a fringe benefit of a Harvard assistant professorship? (Had Popkin considered that the privilege might only come with tenure?) I had always thought that every citizen should be encouraged to search out the truth. "Let me do the thinking for us both," Popkin seemed to be saying. I couldn't figure out how I had come to play Bacall to his Bogart...
...worst thing you can say about Marcel Ophuls is that whatever his politics, artistically he is a bourgeois humanist--mawkish, inconclusive, unclear, visually universalizing the particular. At the same time, his films show the power of that bourgeois humanism to move into an extra-political realm in which each person must ask himself how he would respond in the same situation of political and moral crisis...
...AMERICANS FAIL to celebrate the Vietnam peace is unclear. The silence may stem from a desire to forget the war completely or from an inability to believe that a promise of peace was actually kept. The second reaction is entirely justified. On two fronts, at least, the war drags...
Whether the case will become another test of newsmen's rights under the First Amendment was unclear. Anderson and Whitten have obviously had access to BIA material for some time; eight columns in December were based on such papers. Technically, however, access and publication are not at issue; the legal question involves only receipt and possession of the stolen documents. The maximum penalty is ten years in prison and a $10,000 fine. When asked if his arrest might have a "chilling effect" on First Amendment rights, Whitten quipped: "I was personally chilled." Anderson's response was warmer...