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...North Vietnamese offensive on March 30 and Nixon's frantic attempts to halt the rapid erosion of South Vietnamese strength, students around the country were jolted out of their slumber. As Nixon first escalated the bombing of the North and then mined Northern ports, students answered his affront to the people of the world by calling student strikes, engaging in mass acts of civil disobedience and lobbying their representatives in Washington. A few of the more militant violently assaulted buildings they claimed were linked to the military effort. University officials joined students in protesting the escalation: many flew to Washington...
...North Vietnamese offensive on March 30 and Nixon's frantic attempts to halt the rapid erosion of South Vietnamese strength, students around the country were jolted out of their slumber. As Nixon first escalated the bombing of the North and then mined Northern ports, students answered his affront to the people of the world by calling student strikes, engaging in mass acts of civil disobedience and lobbying their representatives in Washington. A few of the more militant violently assaulted buildings they claimed were linked to the military effort. University officials joined students in protesting the escalation: many flew to Washington...
That is hardly a mandate for a new round of executions, but neither does it support the argument that capital punishment is an affront to contemporary standards. The Constitution places no specific restrictions on the death penalty, and its defenders-including the state's attorneys for California, Georgia and Texas, who are arguing the case before the Supreme Court-maintain that the ban on cruel and unusual punishment is meant simply to govern excessive or inherently cruel penalties. To these men, the death penalty is neither-at least for murder or rape, the main offenses for which...
...letter also asked whether it is legitimate to dismiss "political responses" to the article as "brutish and intolerable" because they "affront Herrnstein's personality." The Dunster committee asked the signers if they had any "hard evidence" of intense personal harassment of Herrnstein and if SDS posters and placards were within the realm of free speech...
...legitimate to dismiss political responses to the article as "brutish," "intolerable," and "unforgivable" because they "affront...Professor Herrnstein's personality...