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Berkeley's relative calm, despite a potentially explosive issue, was a tribute to the skill of Chancellor Heyns in pacifying key groups on campus. Since taking office in 1965, Heyns has been able to isolate the more militant groups by dealing firmly with extremist tactics, while remaining open to orderly protest. He has been helped by the fact that Students for a Democratic Society is surprisingly weak at Berkeley, while other militants refuse to coalesce behind any single leader...
Helping the Hawks. Even so, Israel's response was unusually restrained. Israelis have increasingly been goaded by raiding commandos based in Jordan and Egypt and encouraged by the extremist government of Syria. The new attack could only undermine Israel's doves, at a time when Foreign Minister Abba Eban was in Jerusalem for a Cabinet decision on how far to go toward peace with Egypt and Jordan. Eban's hawkish opponents argue that Jordan's King Hussein is not strong enough to make a peace agreement stick, given the adamant opposition of Jordan-based commandos...
...through sound barriers. No one should be surprised at some of the things going on. In the Kerner Commission Report [on civil disorders] we pointed out that this polarization of extreme forces would occur. The centrists and the moderates have to keep fighting to keep the extremist elements from colliding head on and killing each other. That's what democracy is all about-trying to steer a middle peaceful course between chaos at one end and tyranny at the other...
...Fatah, for the first time called a press conference. Its spokesman declared its total rejection of any political settlement in the Middle East. As Hussein returns to his capital this week, the King must be only too well aware that his grandfather, King Abdullah, was cut down by an extremist's bullet during a visit to Jerusalem...
...Window. The U.F.T. took newspaper ads to claim that its fight was really against "vigilantism, hate propaganda and terror in the schools." No doubt extremists in Ocean Hill had recklessly and needlessly inflamed the situation. No doubt the union had a point when it argued that its members stood to lose painfully gained job security if local committees were totally free to hire and fire teachers. Yet many New Yorkers were outraged by Shanker's own extremist rhetoric and by his arrogance in tying up the entire 1,100,000-pupil system over a dispute at one school...