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This February, when radical students from the University of California, Santa Barbara, burned down the Bank of America branch office at Isla Vista, the New Left suffered a significant moral setback. A majority of moderates, on and off campus, condemned the act and the ideology that sparked it as outrageous. In the weeks that followed, most moderates denied that police and public officials were overreacting to the community's small radical faction, despite the accidental police shooting of Student Kevin Moran (TIME...
...curfew was dropped last Friday, but such was the disgust for both police and radicals following the outbreak that some residents are considering leaving Isla Vista. Patricia Thompson, 25, the mother of two preschoolers, is one of them. "I work at the bank and my husband works in the ROTC office on campus," she said. "We want to move out of Isla Vista. The problem is, the only transfer my husband could get would be to go back to Viet Nam. Right now it looks like a toss...
...weeks ago, Kevin Patrick Moran, 22, an honors student at the University of California, Santa Barbara, was killed by a bullet as he attempted to put out a fire at the beleaguered Isla Vista branch of Bank of America (TIME, April 27). It was widely reported that he had been shot by a sniper, while he and other moderate students dealt directly with the attacking radicals...
...Kevin Moran, 22, an honors student at the University of California, Santa Barbara, the violence last February that resulted in the burning of the Isla Vista branch of the Bank of America was senseless and unnecessary. When an angry mob of radicals tried once more to fire the bank, Kevin and a small group of moderate students took their stand. After a night of attacks repelled by 250 police using tear gas, the students, in the hope of avoiding bloodshed, asked the police to stay out of the area and let them put down the radicals and defend the bank...
...Lundborg, may not rank historically with Martin Luther's challenge at the Diet of Worms: "Here I stand-I cannot do otherwise, God help me." It does indicate, however, that society is growing grimmer as it confronts youthful radicals and rioting students. The bank's $275,000 Isla Vista branch was burned to the ground last month during a rampage that began on the Santa Barbara campus of the University of California. Bank officials fear that they may smell smoke again. Nonetheless, they decided not to be intimidated, and workmen erected a $55,000 prefabricated building next...