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...Quest of Power. What the Buddhists say they want is a constitution, an elected civilian government and a National Assembly. Ky has told them they can have all three-in good time. The extremist Buddhists led by Hué's Thich Tri Quang are unwilling to wait, even though ousting the generals now would cut off the Buddhists' best chance of getting a constitution. The bonzes are maneuvering to get the Assembly that will draw up the new constitution chosen from provincial and city councils-which Buddhists control. Ky has so far refused, and with good reason...
...dehumanization" of the 27,000-student campus. In a report submitted last week to the powerful Academic Senate, the committee stressed the need to promote more contact between faculty and undergraduates, to channel student opinion to policy-makers, and to improve the quality of teaching. But the committee avoided extremist solutions--the temptation to compensate for past by granting students excessive power...
Wonder of wonders, he got a retraction. Dodd said the evidence his committee had accumulated showed that the University is influenced by "extremist" elements. He cited a Daily column calling Johnson "guilty of genocide." But he argued that the printed report was "inaccurate on several points...
...scenes tussle between the Governors and the more conservative Capitol Hill leaders, the policy group decided in the interest of party unity to adopt a diplomatic resolution based on an earlier statement by National Committee Chairman Ray Bliss. It urged all Republicans to "reject membership in any radical or extremist organization, including any which attempts to use the Republican Party for its own ends or any which seeks to undermine the basic principles of American freedom and constitutional government...
...this include the Birch Society? None of the committeemen would say so-at first. Then Birch Publicist John Rousselot crowed in San Marino, Calif., that it was "wise of the Republican Party to make clear that it doesn't seem to be influenced by extremist groups, such as the Communist Party or the Ku Klux Klan." At which, Wisconsin Representative Melvin Laird told his colleagues: "Let's quit monkeying around. No more hedging, damn it. The answer is yes." And so, by the end of the day, committee members were once again reading out the Birchers...