Word: libertarianism
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David Guberman '71, a member of YPSL, called the SDS plan to ban ROTC from Harvard "anti-democratic and anti-civil-libertarian." Answering charges that the YPSL referendum proposal is unacceptable because it does not include a choice of complete abolition of ROTC, Guberman said that "such a position does not deserve to be on the ballot. It is a fundamental characteristic of a civil liberty," he continued, "that if it is subject to a vote, it is not a civil liberty...
...very symbol of uncompromising Leninism that was crushed mercilessly in Stalin's era-and is now imperiled again. Some brought wreaths bearing ribbons that read, "For his fight against Stalinism" and "From his comrades and friends in the prisons and camps." Grigorenko, an engineer whose libertarian views cost him his army rank in 1964, urged the mourners to work for "the persistent development of genuine Leninist democracy," and scathingly dismissed the current "totalitarianism that hides behind the mask of so-called Soviet democracy" as its antithesis...
...LIBERTARIAN. I have no objection to anyone dissenting against anything...
...pithy putdown remains the most effective way to silence a heckler-provided, of course, he is reasonably civilized and relatively quiet. A classic was the riposte by John Wilkes, an 18th century libertine and libertarian, who heard the Earl of Sandwich roar at him in Commons: "I am convinced, Mr. Wilkes, that you will die either of a pox or on the gallows." Wilkes parried: "That, my lord, depends on whether I embrace your mistress or your principles." Today, Prime Minister Harold Wilson can also hold his own. When a heckler shouted "Rub bish!" during a 1966 election rally, Wilson...
...Rafferty, the ultra-conservative Republican nominee and a strong "law and order" candidate, would be helped immeasurably in his lagging campaign with an efficient settlement of university disorders by the National Guard. Not only would the crisis vindicate his more extreme anti-civil libertarian pronouncements--now under heavy attack from liberal republicans--but it would place his opponent, Alan Cranston, in an extremely difficult position...