Word: ace
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Shortly thereafter Chang took matters into his own hands. One Chang ace and another service winner opened the game, 11-8. Two Tiger time-outs proved futile as Twite defended one shot and pasted two of his salvos to the floor to force a 15-8 first-game conclusion...
...Berkeley, forced to withdraw is commencement speaker at Smith College when her could not be guaranteed, and repeatedly interrupted while addressing at University of Minnesota group. In an attempt to end such disruptions, a coalition of college presidents, faculty members and students led by the American Council on Education (ACE) last week issued statement urging the academic community to "respect the rights of others to listen to those who have been invited to speak on campus." Student protestors, one hopes, will pay more attention to the statement than they did to Kirkpatrick...
...ACE's recent "poor Jeane" statement, endorsed by the majority editorial above, errs seriously in unilaterally dismissing such forms of dissent. Shouting down a public official can be rude and intolerant, even detestable, but it occasionally can be a legitimate form of political expression. Such is the case when opponents have no other means of gaining significant public attention--and particularly when the public figure in question has so blatantly disregarded the principles of freedom and tolerance as to invite similar behavior...
...which the outspoken ambassador has rightly become a lightning rod, directly prompted the recent protests. The miffed Ambassador would do well to see that her inability to speak in public without being shouted down speaks much about the nature of the policies with which she has become identified. The ACE should have had the courage to lay the blame for the recent confrontations at the doorstep of Kirkpatrick and the Reagan Administration, instead of lambasting justly frustrated student activists...
Free speech is not at stake in this case, the ACE's protestations notwithstanding. Kirkpatrick, as a leading government official, has complete access to the public eye and ear whenever she or her press office wants it. The attempt by some California regents to punish the students who denounced Kirkpatrick, grossly impolite as they were, is a far graver threat to free expression. Were the ACE truly concerned about civil liberties, it would have stressed those dangers instead...