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...CAMPUS UNREST. Congressmen have readied a spate of bills to suppress campus disorder-and thus caused a fast turnaround by the Administration. As recently as mid-May, Attorney General John Mitchell assured Congress that there was no need for any such new measures. Yet last week, the White House put out word that it was considering legislation extending to federal courts the power to issue injunctions preventing students from disrupting classes. The aim is to head off more stringent legislation originating in Congress...
...permanently snowcapped peaks separate Soviet Kazakhstan from the Chinese region of Sinkiang. One main pass through the Tien Shan range is called the Dzungarian Gates, named after the Dsongars who formed the left flank of the Mongolian army of old. Historically the Gates have been the passageway for Mid-Asian traffic between Russia and China. Last week the two Communist giants reported that their troops had engaged in an armed clash at the Dzungarian Gates-the latest, and potentially most dangerous, of a series of border battles between Soviet and Chinese soldiers this year...
People correctly complain that prices are going up faster under Nixon than they did under President Johnson, but the blame belongs to the Johnson Ad ministration. In the mid-1960s, Lyndon Johnson pressed ahead simultaneously with both the Great Society and the Viet Nam escalation, without requesting an increase in taxes. Between 1965 and 1968, federal spending jumped 47%, and the Government put much more money into the economy than it took out. Johnson feared that if he asked for higher taxes, Congress would balk at paying for what some economists now call the "marriage of the warfare...
...Midway, President Nixon was in mid-passage between a war he had inherited and a war that would soon become his own liability if he could not move effectively toward ending it. In any case, the White House now believes that a new phase of serious negotiation with Hanoi promises to begin soon in Paris. Both directly in public and elliptically in private, the North Vietnamese are not simply contenting themselves with scoring propaganda points but are starting to go further. They are pressing for details of some of Nixon's eight points...
Calkins, the symbolic outsider from the Mid-West, was named a Fellow because the Corporation wanted to change its image. But he is a thoroughly Eastern product--born in Newton, prepped at Exeter, degrees from the College and Law School--and he admits that he was groomed for service to Harvard by a friend on the Corporation and was the logical choice when a vacancy occurred because the friend died...