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...Skiddy von Stade Jr. '38, dean of Freshmen and Master of Mather House joined fourteen other faculty members and administrators endorsing the Harvard-Radcliffe Women's Abortion Action Coalition (HWAAC) last week in its campaign for repeal of national anti-abortion laws...
...Communist half of Germany (G.D.R.), where I was (I thought at the time) slowly starving and dying of thirst. Yet now I am in the academic world of Cambridge finishing my Ph.D. dissertation in linguistics at MIT after being a guest of the East German state for two years--fourteen months at the top secret security interrogation prison MFS Hohenschonhausen (East Berlin) and eight months a la Solzhenitsyn at the work camp Bautzen near the Czech border...
When I got out America had reached the moon, Jimi Hendrix, Nassar, De Gaulle, and Janis Joplin were all dead. I had seen only one newspaper in the fourteen months at the interrogation prison; otherwise I only heard whatever the Secret Police decided to tell me--which didn't include a Harvard Satirical troupe performing nude on stage or that Encounter and Marathon were now American rages. In fact for me and most of the other political prisoners the only way for us to "relate to our environment" were not Encounter sessions but by rapping out morse code messages...
...pleasure. His efforts, which began with questions to his wife and his nurse, once again proved futile. "Readers requesting reprints should note my new address" (Maiden Lane, of course). Nor were "interviews" with prostitutes any more successful. He tells of questioning 15 "experienced prostitutes from all walks of life." Fourteen gave him the same answer as had the majority of urologists. The 15th may have known all, but "did not speak English or French...
...increasing number of people have departed from the conservative mainstream of the American Catholic Church to pose a highly convincing threat to the government's war machine. They have helped organize mass demonstrations, and they have destroyed thousands of draft files. The Baltimore Four, the Catonsville Nine, the Milwaukee Fourteen, the Flower City Conspiracy, and many more-each of these groups has made considerable impact through their practice of non-violent civil disobedience. And with the decline of large but flighty organizations purporting to represent the student Left, the Catholic groups have become the vanguard of the militant antiwar movement...