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That remains to be seen. Next year's dry season may prove to be the most trying test of the Administration's strategy. The North Vietnamese have been quiet for long periods before, only to erupt in disruptive offensives such as Tet. U.S. analysts are convinced that General Giap is planning a replay of 1968 for 1972. They are equally convinced that General Abrams can head him off at the pass?somewhere in Laos, perhaps, or maybe Cambodia?or possibly even in South Viet...
Funding Capone. Nowhere has that attitude been more evident than at the Episcopal Church's recent triennial General Convention in Houston, where Kinsolving played the dual role of observer and participant. On the eve of the convention he wrote a column speculating that the meeting could erupt into violence. He appeared on Houston TV to criticize Presiding Bishop John Hines' administration. During the convention, he testified at a budget-committee hearing. And each day, wearing clerical garb at the typewriter, he wrote an outspoken column for the Houston Post. Reaction was angry. Twenty-three Houston priests denounced...
...deleted. And this Spring, as the CRR punished almost 100 more students, requiring 11 of them to leave, it ruled that student demonstrators did not have to be warned that their actions were illegal in order to be prosecuted for them. In a situation where peaceful demonstrations could easily erupt into violence, the effect of this latest ruling was to scare students out of political activity and stifle legitimate dissent...
...realization is growing that even the best police work, as it is currently set up in the U.S., is little more than a symbolic response to crime. Police can do little to prevent the creation of criminals. The dark reservoirs of anger and disappointment besetting the nation inevitably erupt into violence; a society flush with consumer goods multiplies crime incentives and opportunities. In short, crime has taken on a chronic quality that seems beyond the power of the present police system to change...
...deleted. And this spring, as the CRR punished almost 100 more students, requiring 15 of them to leave, it ruled that student demonstrators did not have to be warned that their actions were illegal in order to be prosecuted for them. In a situation where peaceful demonstrations could easily erupt into violence, the effect of this latest ruling was to scare students out of political activity and stifle legitimate dissent...