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...South Georgia sheriff, L.W. ("Gator") Johnson, said that he would not arrest AWOL soldiers; "I'll protect them any way I can until this Calley thing is cleaned up," he declared. In Austin, Texas, the Statesman ran a scornful front-page editorial titled "Obituary U.S. Army"?and sold out the issue. "The death was announced by a general court-martial of six men," the editorial said. "Pallbearers will include Senators Fulbright, Kennedy and McGovern. Honorary pallbearers will include Moratorium marchers." The Texas senate called for a presidential pardon. Atlanta Printer Sam Yalanzon had takers for FREE CALLEY bumper stickers...
...campaign's most explosive issue is public housing. Ever since 1966, the Chicago Housing Authority's policy has been to erect public housing in predominantly black areas. But last year Federal Judge Richard Austin ordered the authority to produce a plan by which low-income housing projects would be scattered throughout the city, and last month he forced the authority to announce the plan immediately...
...question of profitability is a complex and technical one. However, it would appear that there are enough profitable corporations to permit differentiation on a social responsibility basis. As the Austin Committee notes, the University has no mechanism to make these judgments. But it could help sponsor one. In a meeting last February, the National Council of Churches began a study to measure corporate responsibility, particularly in matters of racial discrimination and environment pollution. It set up a preliminary comparative case study of two corporations. Harvard could and should support this project...
...considered to be socially responsible." But the University should not itself litigate or solicit proxies; it should not "join forces with other large, tax-exempt organizations in policing the conduct of business organizations." No leadership role for Harvard; no obligation to consider questions of social responsibility. That is the Austin Committee's message...
...Austin Committee was asked to set up guidelines; it set up no guidelines. Instead, it proposed creating a fact-finder who would set up his own guidelines. Masking the problem another way, it devised a grand scheme-establishing an interdisciplinary faculty on social issues-which it outlined in fuzzy borders. Ultimately it decided that the issues are too complex to decide, and what's more, since Harvard is a "center of free inquiry." and since the issues are unrelated to education, the issues need not be decided...