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President Nixon yesterday asked Congress for legislation which would authorize immediate Federal intervention in cases of arson or bombing on any college or university campus receiving government funds...
...think it will have a beneficial effect," said Gerald Ford, House Republican leader, adding that Hoover had told him SDS was directly involved in 247 arson cases and 462 personal injury incidents during the past year. There were also about 300 other miscellaneous episodes of destruction to other facilities or property, Ford said. Ford added that "the tragic bombing at the University of Wisconsin" and other incidents of campus terrorism which "have increased in number, tempo, and seriousness" have contributed to a deep concern in the Justice Department...
However the bombers style themselves, some experts believe that the Weatherman faction of the splintered S.D.S. was involved in the Wisconsin bombing and has had a hand in most of the 150 major bomb and arson attacks in the U.S. in the past year. "It's going to get worse," Assistant FBI Director Charles Brennan predicted after the Madison explosion...
Safety Valve. On many of the smaller islands, the trend is the same. In Grenada, a self-governing British state. Prime Minister Eric Gairy proposes to deal with rising militancy by reintroducing the cat-o'-nine-tails for arson and other serious offenses. In independent Barbados, the government passed a law banning public meetings that stir up racial hatred and proposed a similar law for statements by members of Parliament. It also called off a conference of U.S. and West Indian Black Power leaders early in July. After radical workers and students sacked Willemstad, capital of the island...
...campus cannot degenerate into a privileged sanctuary for obscenity, trespass, violence, arson and killing with special immunity for participants in such acts. Criminal acts, active or by negligence, cannot be condoned or excused because of panic, whether the offender be a policeman, a national guardsman, a student, or one of us in this legislative body. Repression is preferable to anarchy to most Americans...