Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nixon got the message. While the Joint Chiefs, backing their general in Viet Nam, still urged that the trials be held, Nixon sent Resor to the rostrum to kill the charges and set the Berets free. The claim that the CIA would not allow its agents to testify was only a pretext-and a transparently clumsy one at that-for calling the whole thing...
...just north of downtown. Atlanta police have stepped up patrols of the area, often stopping and threatening those of unorthodox appearance. Young people are arrested on such specious charges as loitering, jaywalking and obscenity. Shops and homes are raided, ostensibly in search of drugs, but so often that occupants claim they are being harassed...
There is another objection to this first point. For assuming, even, that the university is a-political, point one comes nowhere near meeting opposition to the war as a moral issue. Will the faculty claim the right to function 'without moral objectives,' a la Werner von Braun? By choosing to view opposition to the war as a strictly "political" issue the faculty simply defines things to make it easier for itself, and fails completely in meeting opposition whose roots are in moral outrage...
...statement's claim that the Faculty must maintain corporate silence to protect the University's freedom "is too craven a suggestion to deserve comment...
...They claim that the resolution would have a better chance of passing at a convocation, because some Faculty members who support the resolution's theory would feel compelled to vote against it at an official meeting...