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...year-end mail has brought ever-increasing numbers of reader-selected candidates. This year, as the sampling in the Letters column suggests, the variety of choice is greater than ever. Nominations have come in from all over the world. They range from Senator Robert Kennedy to Presidential Candidate Eldridge Cleaver, who is now a fugitive from justice. The crew of the US.S. Pueblo, Ho Chi Mmh, the Viet Cong guerrilla and the U.S. G,I. all received votes. Joe Namath, Charles de Gaulle, Bob Hope, Sirhan Sirhan, the non-hippie student, Richard Nixon, Alexander Dubcek, Abba Eban, Eartha Kitt, Lyndon...
...faction which will give the minority neither rights nor power. They see the figures of authority continually discredited by their acts and by their lack of action, by the police riot in Chicago, by their unwillingness to extricate themselves quickly from the war, by the attempt to reincarcerate Eldridge Cleaver, by the brutality of the police at the Columbia demonstrations, by the selection of a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President who was neither the choice of the people nor the winner of the primaries, by the credibility gap of the President, and finally by the correctness...
...Soul on Ice, Cleaver...
...Soul on Ice, Cleaver...
...against political interference earned faculty support. His open-door policy of reasonable dialogue disarmed the dissidents and won broad student sympathy. His crackdown on the sit-in demonstrators pleased the regents without antagonizing the moderate majority of students. The radicals might yet find a way to use the unresolved Cleaver case to inflame the university. But the encouraging point of the restraint at Berkeley-reinforced by rejections of confrontation politics this fall at N.Y.U. and Columbia-may be a growing student awareness that change can be more quickly achieved by cooperating with tolerant administrators than by resorting to force...