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...tuition abatement program is "a kind of blunderbuss arrangement," he said. "It doesn't provide anywhere near the level of help you can give," he added, speaking of help for graduate students as a group, not teaching fellows alone...
Simplistic Solutions. Agnew's blunderbuss assaults on "radical liberals" have infuriated thoughtful moderates. New York's Mayor John Lindsay, who split with his party to back Democrat Arthur Goldberg against Nelson Rockefeller, observed last week that the 1970 campaign "has spread a cloud of suspicion and mistrust over our whole nation." He added: "Men with great power and high office make headlines that stir fears rather than rally hopes. They have charged that opposition to their policies somehow is an incitement to unrest and violence. That charge is incredible...
EVEN as it widened the war in Southeast Asia, the Nixon Administration chose to further estrange itself from the nation's campuses. Vice President Spiro Agnew, speaking to Republicans in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., unleashed another blunderbuss attack on colleges as "circus tents or psychiatric centers for overprivileged, under-disciplined, irresponsible children of the well-to-do blase permissivists" (see box, following page). President Nixon, in an impromptu talk at the Pentagon, referred to radical students as "these bums blowing up the campuses" and contrasted them with G.I.s fighting in Viet Nam: "the greatest kids-they stand tall and they...
...Police Riot." When the law was first proposed, the then Attorney General Ramsey Clark testified against it, underscoring the view of many legal scholars that its blunderbuss language was constitutionally questionable and might pose a threat to legitimate political activity. One major concern: a jury might infer that the organizers of a peaceful demonstration had riotous intentions even if hecklers or militants started a ruckus. After the convention, Clark refused to invoke the new law despite Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's contention that itinerant "terrorists" had caused the tumult...
Social scientists note that punishment, to deter, must be immediate and impartial. During Prohibition, when enforcement of the Volstead Act was roughly comparable to that of the present drug laws, the nation's per-capita consumption of liquor actually increased 10%. The blunderbuss approach to marijuana creates widespread disrespect for all law among young people; perhaps worst of all, it makes it difficult for young people to believe adults' warnings about other drugs, and discourages the young who need medical help and advice from seeking...