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Another factor in the decision may have been pressure from some CBS local affiliates, which have resented the critical tone of instant analysis. CBS recently canceled the antiwar play Sticks and Bones in response to similar sentiment (TIME, March 19). The latest move prompted some grumbling among CBS correspondents. Although they can still discuss the content of the President's speeches, they will have to do so on the network's regular news programs. But Eric Sevareid, the network's dean of instant analysis, welcomed the change, saying that he had "always been a little uncomfortable" with...
...struggle that has changed the lives of many of us? The professional sophists claim students opposed the war because they feared the draft. This analysis is a cousin of the explanation that hot weather caused ghetto rebellions. No revealing correlation between draft status and the intensity of antiwar militance has ever been proferred, and the skeptics will have to search deeper for a reasonable explanation...
...radicals, of course, were always more strenuous in their opposition to the war, but their participation in trashing demonstrations one day did not prevent them from washing off the tear gas and joining a peaceful rally the next. The antiwar movement was always characterized by several levels of participation: prospective liberal law students could avoid arrest by not attending militant actions and still contribute meaningfully to ending the war by joining the peaceful waves of people who clogged the streets in quiet and orderly marches...
...left is stronger than it has been since 1970. NAM conducted a wide range of activities this year, including support for the United Farmworkers lettuce boycott, a petition campaign against Harvard's Faculty hiring policy--which allegedly discriminates against radicals--and, Vietnam-America Friendship Week, a program of antiwar films and teachins about...
...weeks later, Cox earned notoriety among Harvard radicals for his role in the controversy surrounding a prowar "counter teach-in." Cox floated reports before the incident that any disruptions by antiwar activists would be taken as violations of academic freedom...