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Messrs. Quillen and Benjamin maintain that for Harvard to resist the spirit of this law by compensating for lost funds would constitute "disrespect for the law," disregard for "social order." But law and order are not absolute edicts from above, to be unquestionably obeyed. They are human processes, determined only by informed, conscientious assent and dissent. If a law is unjust, I believe it must be resisted, so that higher laws may be allowed naturally to take effect. I encourage Harvard to show its concern for just legal process by negating the effect of this insidious measure. Kenneth Hale-Wehmann...
...growing disregard for the nation's laws is insidious and damaging to everyone's safety and welfare...
...dissident credentials. Of the 24 Russian contributors, seven have resigned or been expelled from the body which officially recognizes writers: four have been or still are in labor camps, and others have been persecuted by the government or expelled from the Communist Party. But they share the same bold disregard for Soviet views, displaying a remarkable willingness to speak, although many have already experienced the consequences of such openness. Anatoly Marchenko, for 17 years a political prisoner and newly sentenced to 10 years in a labor camp and five years of exile writes...
Still, many elected officials are wary about pushing such bills through the statehouse. Wisconsin Governor-Elect Anthony Earl opposes the bill that will come before the state legislature this winter, calling it unenforceable. Says Earl: "I think there would be widespread disregard for a change to 21." Some educators dismiss raising the drinking age on the grounds that it fails to address the teen-age "attitude" problem. Says Faye Gordon, coordinator of a Brookline, Mass., project in the public school system that uses such devices as a quiz show called You Bet Your Beer to persuade teen-agers...
...released this week. The result of trips to Thailand and Pakistan by a seven-man team, the U.N. investigation was undertaken when the U.S. expressed dissatisfaction with a previous U.N. probe that yielded inconclusive results last year. The latest report concludes lamely that the investigators "could not disregard the circumstantial evidence" indicating "possible" use of biochemical weapons. But the team led by Egyptian Military Physician Esmat Ezz included "political officers" from Bulgaria and Iran. It did not enter combat zones in Laos, Cambodia and Afghanistan to collect evidence, relying instead on samples and accounts from refugees...