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...credible to contend that Harvard, John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Edward Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Mike Mansfield, Harrison Williams, Hubert Humphrey, the United Negro College Fund and the National Urban League would openly welcome the friendship or money of an exploiter...
...their defense, State Department officials contend that there was little they could do about Jonestown because no residents complained about conditions there. Law enforcement agencies are reluctant to tangle with groups that can claim the protection of the U.S. Constitution's provision on religious freedom, and in recent years the courts have expanded this protection. At the same time, partly because of abuses by some agents during the Watergate era, the FBI has been sharply restricted in its undercover activities. FBI agents argue that the only way they could have found out what was happening in Jonestown...
Even with these fixes, union chiefs reject the guidelines, which they contend limit wages much more rigidly than prices. Last week the 22,000-member Western Pulp and Paper Workers sued in federal court in Portland, Ore., to have the standards declared illegal. The charge: the program is mandatory, and the President has no congressional authority to impose it. United Auto Workers President Douglas Fraser insists that the only way to win labor's support would be for Congress to enact the President's proposal granting tax rebates to obedient union members and other groups if the inflation...
These are the legacy of the Puritan's Covenant psychology, and they are a great source of the old American demon, absolutism. The movements epitomize one half of the national psyche, the Puritan conscience, and contend with the other half, democratic license. They take up, once again, the Puritan's vision of an ideal community and a steadying of morals and manners. Their history is mostly a history of failures--the continent is littered with testimonies to American visions. And the People's Temple was really no different: it sought the ideal community, too. Like all its American predecessors...
Ware and Vaida correctly contend that if handled properly, EDB is probably safe. But inexperienced students can not be expected to possess flawless laboratory technique. Science students must learn to deal with lab hazards, but they need not be exposed to risks they are not yet prepared to handle safely: training student scientists in a teaching laboratory with carcinogenic chemicals is like training bomb squads with live explosives...