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Like Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, whose visit last week opened the Institute's program, Ford will hold two informal discussions with groups of 50 undergraduates. The first will be this afternoon at Leverett House and the second tomorrow at Winthrop. Both discussions will be followed by small dinners in which 20 more students will meet with Ford...
...open letter to Hon. Robert McNamara...
...vast crime is in progress, the duties of etiquette bind one to silence or at most quiet, unobtrusive suggestions that perhaps one's chosen leaders ought to alter their course a tiny bit. Therefore I regret the discourteousy of a demonstration I took part in and apolozige to Secretary McNamara. MERRILL KAITZ...
...ignorance of the facts, and false principles which run rampant within this group. Instead of pressing for their goals with the tools of democracy, as their title would indicate, the SDS formed the proverbial "lynch party." They made sure they exercised their freedom of speech, but every word Mr. McNamara uttered was purposely obliterated by a screaming...
...Institute should give them something in return: first, the assurance that they wouldn't be coerced into making public statements, and second, the assurance of several days of relative tran-quality so that they could gain something themselves from contact with an academic community. And, in the case of McNamara, the case against debate seemed even more compelling. Neustadt was not about to pressure the Secretary of Defense into a session whose primary purpose would be to discredit government policies; to do so would be to violate the terms of McNamara's invitation and to surrender to unconcealed threats...