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Spain's Generalissimo Francisco Franco broke off his uneasy five-year ad venture into liberalism last week by clamping a state of emergency on his increasingly restive nation. The move came after fiery student demonstrations in Madrid and Barcelona; the regime charged that students had been misled by "wicked and ambitious persons" employing a "strategy aimed at producing an orgy of nihilism, anarchism and disobedience." Student unrest, however, was only part of the story. During the past sev eral years, the long quiescent opposition to Franco had taken on sufficient stat ure to cause serious worry among the conservatives...
...newspaper ad placed by Honeywell Inc. to attract computer technicians was a high-class bit of copy and featured drawings of those two great authors of Principia Mathematica, Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) and Bertrand Russell (1872-1967). The late Bertrand Russell? Hardly. At 96, he is very much alive at his home in Wales. And when he heard that Honeywell also makes anti-personnel bombs as well as computers, he was even more willing to carry out a lawsuit he had filed for unauthorized use of his name and picture. After dryly noting the "somewhat misleading legend" about...
...misunderstanding of the Rosovsky committee's purpose was an old one. When Ford named the members in April, he merely charged them with "investigating the place" of Afro-American studies in the Harvard curriculum. But members of the newly-formed Ad Hoc Committee said then that they had an informal agreement with Ford that the committee was going to lay the groundwork for an Afro-American department...
This letter is remarkable for the unlimited powers of judgment the Ad Board grants itself in determining what actions are "obstructive," and what areas of university life must be protected from them. "Obstructing" could include any dissenting action, whether this be giving all A's to contest the grading system, or burning down the ROTC building. It is clear that the judgment of the Ad Board and the faculty's endorsement constitute no act of clemency, but one of political intimidation and repression...
Morevoer, particular circumstances in the country at this time make the Ad Board judgment appear in a large and sinister light. Repression of dissent is now national policy by virtue of the "ant-riot" provisions in Public Laws 90-550, 90-557, and Sec. 504 of Public Law 90-575. Is Harvard in any way to grant support for such dangerous policy? There seems at the moment every reason to believe that in issues far greater in scope and significance than the one at hand, Harvard's administration and faculty will act not only to support, but to further such...