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...these positions is clearly incompatible with the rights which professors have along with all other citizens to express their views on public policy and to participate in the political process. A professor does not lose this right because he is either a hawk or a dove, does research at the CFIA or elsewhere, or is named Huntington or Genovese. Mr. Plotke's views are a challenge to the basic principles essential to the life of both an academic community and a free society...
...prodding of the Center, Walt Rostow and Henry Rowen persuaded the American negotiator at Geneva, Llewelyn Thompson, to propose the "hot line" to the Russian delegate; the proposal was accepted ("Neither is known as being a dove," Schelling said of Rostow and Rowen, "but both were very strong for arms arrangements with the Russians. I would guess Rowen did more to keep nuclear weapons out of Western Europe than anyone you can name...
...join a group, stand surrounded; braless girls in blue workshirts beside working women with matching shoes and bag. A banner near me, marked with dove, Women's Strike for Peace. Not far away, Hands Off Angela Davis. The Third World Women's Alliance. I can't see in any direction; somewhere cars honk, and voices begin the familiar war whoop. We are anxious to begin. A laughing girl breaks off mid-whoop: "Hey, maybe this isn't feminine." In my notes I describe her as pretty, blond, and am ashamed. I would never describe a man that...
Down-Home Impression. In Tennessee, the stakes are high. Democratic Senator Albert Gore, a leading dove, is one of Nixon's prime targets, and he trails in the race. Treleaven is attacking: directly or indirectly, his spots for William Brock characterize Gore as remote from the people and the needs of the state, and as somehow connected with social unrest domestically because of his leading role in opposition to the war. To carry the attack, he has built a campaign around the announcement that "Bill Brock believes in the things you and I believe in." Brock is endorsed...
WHEN wounded, even a dove can express its pain by crying out. As South Dakota Democrat George McGovern faced certain defeat in the Senate on the amendment that he and Oregon Republican Mark Hatfield had sponsored to force the withdrawal of all U.S. forces from Viet Nam by the end of 1971, he assailed his colleagues in brutally personal terms. "Every Senator in this chamber is partly responsible for sending 50,000 young Americans to an early grave," he charged. "This chamber reeks of blood...