Word: congressmen
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...date of Congressional reaction to campus tumult may, in part, be due to a belated realization that repressive legislation is an inadequate and perhaps even counter-productive response to university problems. In a report on college unrest sent to President Nixon on June 17, a group of 22 Republican Congressmen said that...
...report acknowledged that larger social problems such as the Vietnam war and the condition of urban American were important factors leading to college disturbances. The Congressmen--two of whom spent some days at Harvard interviewing students. Faculty and Administrators--also voiced strong support for what has come to be known as "university restructuring," to increase the responsiveness of universities to student concerns. The report, which was released just before hearings on the Erlenborn bill began, probably helped to swing some Republican Congressmen on the Green subcommittee against the bill...
Such confidence is justified. Inflation has reached the point where many Congressmen feel that a vote against the President will be tantamount to a vote for higher prices and interest rates. Says Mills: "The House rises and discharges its responsibilities when it has to, and this is an emergency...
...CAMPUS UNREST. Congressmen have readied a spate of bills to suppress campus disorder-and thus caused a fast turnaround by the Administration. As recently as mid-May, Attorney General John Mitchell assured Congress that there was no need for any such new measures. Yet last week, the White House put out word that it was considering legislation extending to federal courts the power to issue injunctions preventing students from disrupting classes. The aim is to head off more stringent legislation originating in Congress...
...Nixon's speech, Harvard's John Kenneth Galbraith, testifying before a joint congressional subcommittee, rather fantastically proposed nationalization of any company doing more than 75% of its business with the Department of Defense. But he plainly insisted: "I am not a supporter of unilateral disarmament."* While many Congressmen have called for reduction of U.S. troop commitments in Europe, none have seriously suggested that NATO or any other U.S. military alliance be dismantled. Less than three months ago, Senator J. William Fulbright accused Defense Secretary Melvin Laird of using a "technique of fear." Fulbright has given aid and comfort...