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...presume, as the Republican Party would have America presume, that these delegates were more than fixtures. The comparison between the Republican and Democratic Conventions was so stark that the Republican theme of an "Open Door" convention dissolves into fantasy at the most cursory examination. Only tangential events like the aimless violence in Miami Beach's streets and bodily assaults on delegates could give credence to this theme by providing reason for a multitude of closed doors...
...CFIA TRASHING was condemned almost unanimously by the community. President Bok said it was an action with "no purpose to be gained other than mindless violence." The Crimson editorially condemned the attack "without qualification" and characterized it as "aimless violence." Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, estimated that about $25,000 damage had been done to the building. Student volunteers and Harvard policemen worked late into the night to clear up the wreckage. The trashing probably had a salutary effect on attendance at the upcoming mass meeting; students became even more determined to translate their outrage into effective...
...CFIA TRASHING was condemned almost unanimously by the community. President Bok said it was an action with "no purpose to be gained other than mindless violence." The Crimson editorially condemned the attack "without qualification" and characterized it as "aimless violence." Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, estimated that about $25,000 damage had been done to the building. Student volunteers and Harvard policemen worked late into the night to clear up the wreckage. The trashing probably had a salutary effect on attendance at the upcoming mass meeting: students became even more determined to translate their outrage into effective...
Malcolm X was killed by a black man. George Wallace was allegedly shot by a follower-though Arthur Bremer was evidently bird-dogging other candidates with aimless hostility. The list is endless: personal peril now climbs aboard the Queen Elizabeth 2, hides in a locked apart ment-or in a suburban shopping center as it did recently when a janitor gunned down a handful of strollers in North Carolina. If the earth is unsafe the air bristles with danger. Skyjackings create such anxiety that last week, when four black men seized a Western Airlines jetliner, it was easy to believe...
Indeed, many feel that the path is a deadend. The worn tactics--lobbying (by students or by college presidents), obstructive sit-ins, and certainly aimless violence--now have questionable influence on the decisions that are made in the offices that count in Washington. What they do influence is the way Nixon foists those decisions on the public. The reaction to the Cambodian incursion of 1970 did not instruct Nixon not to invade Laos six months later; rather it taught him how to time his actions and manage the press. Strategy seems sometimes to focus more on what the Administration...