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...country for more signatures. Williams College students began organizing "Pause for Peace," a national work stoppage set for May 27 between 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. Williams students are asking alumni to spread the protest. Some 400 faculty members from four western Massachusetts campuses have voted to invite Spiro Agnew to speak at their campuses; they reason that once the Vice President arrives, he can be indicted for crossing state lines to incite a riot?which would surely break out if Agnew came to visit. Another student movement would have the young boycott soft drinks for the duration...
Richard Nixon can ill afford such alienation either in Washington or in the rest of the nation?a fact that he now seems to realize. For months, the President did nothing to tone down Spiro Agnew's divisive statements. After Nixon's meeting last week with the eight college presidents, the word went out that Agnew would be sedated. Nixon promptly denied it, as he had to in order to avoid humiliating the man he has praised so handsomely in the past. Agnew also insisted that he was not to be "muzzled." Nonetheless, in a speech at Boise, Idaho, Agnew...
Specifically, the faculty and a handful of administrators objected to Nixon's and Agnew's use of the terms "bums" and "effete snobs." They also questioned "the ability of black Americans and other oppressed groups to obtain justice," and called for a halt in America's escalation of the Indochina war and American withdrawal from Southeast Asia...
After taking in a fistful of radical interns last year, the Post drew a hard-line on political activists this year in response to Agnew-led attacks on the "liberal" press...
Other signs played on President Nixon's reference earlier last week to college protesters as "bums." much as in November the demons? rators had carried signs saying "Effete Snobs for Peace." after Vice-President Agnew's earlier reference...