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...hell," said Rabbi Alexander M. Schindler, chairman of the 33-member Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. More than 1,000 Jewish students from New York demonstrated outside the White House, some carrying coffins symbolizing "the death of American morality." To such charges, and to equally groundless accusations of anti-Semitism on the part of the Administration, White House Press Secretary Jody Powell retorted, with good cause, "If honest debate cannot be conducted among honest people without allegations of the basest motives, then our society is in sad shape...
This belligerent attitude, founded or not, has produced a series of tactical disasters for the army. Indiscriminate army searches, groundless arrests, the use of rubber bullets, and especially the internment of political suspects (now ended)--all these have alienated the Catholic community. Whatever argument can be erected in the defense of these as military necessities, no argument can defend the general "tone" of the army's conduct in carrying them out. Despite the denials and counter-accusations, there is little doubt that the army has committed with some regularity acts of gross harassment, beatings, psychological brutalities and other rights violations...
Mary Conlon, administrative assistant to the dean of Law and a member of the ad hoc committee, said yesterday women councilors had been concerned that the committee would want to place its own members on the commission, but that she believes such fears are groundless...
Jose Cabranes, Yale's attorney, denounced the suit as "reckless and obviously designed to attract maximum publicity for groundless charges." He said the university already had a system for investigating the harassment of students -but it is a system set up last year only to aid blacks, and has never been used to investigate sexual coercion charges...
Robert E. Kaufmann '62, chairman of the search committee, said Thursday that the fears of the 40 athletes--most of whom are varsity captains or porminent names on the Harvard-Radcliffe roster--are groundless...