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THE ABOLITION by Jonathan Schell; Knopf; 173 pages; $11.95
What astonishes me about the Harvard Strike--which stands here as an example of the radical student movement of the 1960s--when I think of it a decade and a half later, is the peculiar disproportion between means and ends, between what we then called our "militancy" and the unprepossessing...
There was certainly no direct effect. The abolition of ROTC at Harvard did not materially hinder the war effort. ROTC was abolished at many universities yet there were still, a year after the Strike, enough officers to lead the ground troops into Cambodia. Nor did our protests put the war...
The findings once again resuscitated calls for an abolition of the housing lottery based on choice, in favor of a random lottery. Administrators and members of the Undergraduate Council, however, appeared to be exploring more moderate solutions to eliminate these disparities.
Some of the Socialists' biggest ideas were applied in the area of law-and-order. Justice Minister Robert Badinter implemented major reforms, including abolition of the death penalty, dissolution of the feared "state security" courts, and an expansion of prisoners' rights. But a public outcry over rising crime...