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...demonstrators have been killed and many more injured in clashes between police and protesters. Two weeks ago, New Delhi imposed "President's rule" over the state, a procedure by which the federal government temporarily assumes control of state affairs. But the action failed to stem the tide of dissent, and last week Indian troops were rushed into the area to quell disorders...
...White and Rehnquist eventually wound up in lonely dissent on the court, they were soon joined by a clamor of antiabortionists across the country. New York's Terence Cardinal Cooke called the opinion "a tragic utilitarian judgment" and added that "judicial decisions are not necessarily sound moral decisions." James Lenehan, chairman of a Connecticut Right to Life committee, wondered "how the Supreme Court can at one time rule against capital punishment and then allow the wholesale slaughter of unborn children." Georgia's Right to Life chairman, Joe Bowman, was reminded "of the 1857 Dred Scott decision, which said...
...opened deep gaslies in the fabric of American society, reintroduced massive dissent and at times rebellion, and helped for many to undermine the basis of the American social order...
...main criticism being levelled against the Moratorium by defenders of U.S. policies in Vietnam is that such public demonstrations of dissent have the effect of encouraging the National Liberation Front and their North Vietnamese allies to wait out the United States at Paris in the expectation that American public opinion will eventually force a withdrawal of American troops without prior concessions by the Vietnamese. Such criticisms must be troubling for many of the politicians and prominent citizens who have recently jumped on the Moratorium bandwagon, since it is undeniable that the existence of a strong anti-war movement...
...deadline of an angry Congress. And if the demonstrations on the 19th and 20th are as large as anticipated, the political price of failing to sign the peace will be clear. On the other hand, if we let Nixon get past January 20th with no peace and little dissent, the political constraints on his warmaking will be seriously diminished. The threat of a renewed antiwar movement must be made real...