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Ambassador to Miffland...
...sent your ambassador to that new Graustark, the people's state of Miffland [Nov. 9]. He fulfilled his duties by sending back dispatches about the new law and justice and culture flourishing there...
...revolution came to Miffland disguised as an ordinary rent dispute. William Bandy, 38, a gregarious former high school teacher turned full-time real estate speculator, bought four Miffland homes in July for $200,000 and came to a tentative agreement with the young men and women who were living in them: they would pay an additional $250-a-month rent and sign a lease. But the tenants-some students, some "street people" who come and go but normally number around 30-soon changed their minds about both items. From there, it was only a hop, skip and a "people...
Ever since Miffland established a clear identity as a student quarter, the 2,000 to 3,000 young people living there have made it a showcase for far-out student thought and action. But not everyone buys what he sees in a showcase, and most of the university community does not buy the squatters' turn toward guns or their limited revolution. So far, Weisgrau leads a lonely band...
Bandy also stands forlornly on the philosophical battlefield. Mayor Dyke, a Republican law-and-order man whose police are in a standstill cease-fire with Miffland, bemoans the permissiveness of the courts and the behavior of the Mifflanders, but he also expresses concern about the rights of Bandy's antagonists. His caution about a police move that might provoke a new riot is clearly justified by Miffland's history of police-student confrontations. Still, he would be neither human nor political if he did not have a smarting memory of Bandy's 1969 denunciation...