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...leadership vacuum of the Democratic Party, it is not hard to explain the loss of nerve and the failure to press a reasoned critique against the Nixon administration. As if Vietnam were not enough to shatter liberal Democrats, the rediscovery of the Middle American working class by Spiro Agnew and Kevin Phillips has almost routed the opposition. George Meany and the unions seem prepared to kiss off the party, leaving the Democrats only a handful of blacks and over-30 academics to represent. The Democratic National Committee is fumbling for a constituency. The recent effort by the party treasurer...
Since the nine-member commission was formed in the aftermath of the murders at Jackson State and Kent State it has been the center of controversy. In June Vice President Spiro Agnew called for the resignation of Joseph Rhodes Jr., a Junior Fellow at Harvard, from the commission because Rhodes had said he would like to see the commission investigate the effect of Agnew's rhetoric on campus unrest...
...tooism. Accused of being too permissive toward radicals and, virtually, of advocating violence, many liberal Democrats have not until recently bothered to deny such charges. Polls and other soundings have persuaded them that they must indeed respond, thus putting them in the impossible position of having to outdo Agnew & Co. on law-and-order...
...biggest such effort in U.S. history. Tests showed some of the new matriculants reading and doing math at barely ninth-grade level. Vice President Agnew has termed the scheme "new socialism." In a speech last April, he predicted that by admitting students "who do not meet the standards and requirements of higher education," New York "will have traded away one of the intellectual assets of the Western world for a four-year community college and 100,000 devalued diplomas." Some angry parents see open admissions as a giveaway of an opportunity that their children had to earn by academic merit...
...onto the system's four-year campuses. Half will follow the pattern made famous by the California educational system and attend one of CUNY's seven two-year community colleges. University officials decided that to send all of the high risks to these campuses-the strategy that Agnew and other critics favor-would reinforce the discouragement of many black students and their teachers and prolong de facto segregation...