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...commission was formed to investigate the violence that resulted in the deaths of students at Kent State and Jackson State last spring. The panel's report was submitted in September, and the President's response was made public in a letter to Scranton Saturday...
With Cambodia and Kent State and the student strike in May, Studds waited expectantly for the onslaught of student volunteers said to be flocking to congressional campaigns. The tip-off should have come one day in late May, when organizers for Movement for a New Congress (MNC) promised 200 volunteers to canvass, and five showed up. But throughout the spring and summer Studds coordinators diligently sought out the students with little or no success. During the two-week break of the Princeton Plan, exactly five students showed up to work. Only on November 3 did students from the Boston area...
...time for Man of the Year nominations? My vote goes to the students at Kent State and Jackson who have died this year. No single event of my life has influenced me so much...
...style. Hickel's manner is pure Alaska -up front, assertive, raw. As a Governor, he was used to command, and the role of Nixon's subaltern did not suit him. Whatever his initial political stereotype, Hickel shattered it last May 6 when, in the aftermath of the Kent State shootings and the Cambodian expedition, he wrote to Nixon-having failed to gain a private hearing-to criticize the President for alienating himself from the young. No one has admitted leaking the message to the press, but it was doubtless a mistake, striking Nixon from behind at a moment...
Both the book Movement and the movement itself are all too aware that a medium which devotes 101/2 feet of news coverage to Kent State and only 29 inches to Orangeburg- as the New York Times did- is a medium that we cannot trust...