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...Mollenhoff, who has since returned to a journalist's job with the Des Moines Register, made a request to State Department Deputy Undersecretary William B. Macomber Jr. for the names of the 250 department employees who had presented Rogers with a petition critical of the U.S. position in Cambodia. Rogers had been unhappy about the petition, but he had promised that no signer would be penalized. Rogers called Mollenhoff on the telephone: "To begin with, when you have a request of this kind, don't ever go to my subordinates without my knowledge...
...rule forbidding administrators to negotiate with disruptive students. Last January a straw poll of the 32,000 students at U.T.'s main campus in Austin showed 80% favoring Erwin's impeachment on the ground that he had "unwarrantedly interfered" with school operations. In the aftermath of Cambodia and Kent State, he refused to close down the Austin campus: "I'm unwilling to pay taxes to support an institution that just turns things over to these activist faculty members and students," says Erwin. "Students have no inherent rights to attend a college or university, just regardless of what...
...Nixon regime, already discredited by the Cambodia misadventure and its demonstrated hostility towards labor (via its official strike-breaking activity in the postal, railroad, and G.E. outbreaks), sensing a sudden, premature retirement, is too nervous to legislate controls. The liberal opposition is too interested in November to bare its heart. The political environment is right for introducing an altogether new type of "Control Policy."( The author, a 25-year-old Temple University graduate, is one of the founding members of the National Caucus of Labor Committees...
Even in the anger that followed Kent and Cambodia, most college students felt that political activity was a better way to try to end the war than violence. Hundreds joined ambitious projects to campaign for peace candidates in this fall's elections. They are getting little help from "the system"-especially the Internal Revenue Service...
Said Arnett: "I don't feel a reporter ought to be involved. But I remember going into Snoul [Cambodia] and seeing the bodies of five civilians in the road. They had been napalmed. There was a mother and her two kids sort of melted together. I've seen a lot of bodies, but this got me. I started to lose my cool." He paused, then added: "The war is going to go on and on-five or ten more years -no matter what anybody writes. I've been like a diver crawling around the floor...