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Walter A. Rosenblith, provost of MIT, said yesterday that although the institute is not willing to act as a "metropolitan unit" for the Boston area, it does not object to allowing Harvard students to enroll in the program so long as the increased size does not disrupt its functioning...
...think there is much less censorship here than there is in most countries of the world. [But] the press has been controlled by a few people, and the role it played was the role it was ordered to play by these people, and that was to try and disrupt as much as they could. They told blatant lies the whole time...
...week Levi told the Senate committee that his department is drafting an order that would allow the FBI to investigate domestic dissidents only if there is "a likelihood" that they are involved in violent and illegal activities. The directive would also prohibit the FBI from trying to discredit or disrupt the organizations unless there was no other way to eliminate "an immediate risk to human life." Under the draft guidelines, the FBI would have to inform the Attorney General of all domestic security probes; in turn, he would be required to halt any investigation that failed to meet the written...
Jack W. Boisen, a spokesman for Trans World Airlines, said Friday that recent strikes against National and United Airlines may slightly disrupt some students' travel plans. Travelers will have difficulty getting reservations on domestic flights because of the strike, he said, but they should still have no trouble finding space on international flights...
Buchanan, Hamm, and King, when reached yesterday, said that they pleaded "guilty with an explanation" to Carchman. All three said there had been no premeditated plan to disrupt Hick's speech, but that her remarks made them "emotionally distraught...