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...believe that those Faculty members who have a position on ROTC and feel strongly about it will only be encouraged by the Paine Hall sit-in to view the issue with the proper sense of urgency it deserves. For those who would prefer not to discuss ROTC in its wider implications to the war in Vietnam and to Harvard's role, however small, in perpetuating it, the question of punishment and squashing those students whose concern was too strident for them will be an ideal method of avoiding their responsibility to the students, and faculty, and themselves. However, it seems...
...theologians proposed seven specific reforms. The most notable was a demand that the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, now dominated by conservatives, be revamped to reflect a wider spectrum of theological opinion. The statement also declared that no theologian accused of error should be heard in secret, and that if a hearing is necessary, the case should be decided by a board of experts, half of them chosen by the defendant himself...
...that in meeting the prescribed quota of ton-kilometers-per-engine hauled, the harassed Soviet railroad official indeed stood to gain by having an extra and unaccounted-for one up his sleeve. Ironically, this locomotive got abducted before my men had a chance to change its axles to the wider track of the Russian railroads-as her crew must have found out when the narrower European standard tracks ended some 40 kilometers inside Russia...
Along with other founders of the dump-Johnson movement, Lowenstein helped launch the New Democratic Coalition (NDC) following this summer's bloodbath in Chicago. Although a successor to the McCarthy movement, the NDC is seeking a wider, more impressive base of support than McCarthy ever did, and its goal is nothing less than the take-over of the Democratic Party...
...which deals with the intent of violent political protest. If youthful protestors break the law in pursuit of a political objective they do not have to be treated simply as criminals. Kennedy can see this for the civil rights protests; under the new circumstances of 1968, perhaps a wider view of protest is needed...