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...December Faculty meeting will consider an SDS petition to expel ROTC from the campus, while a milder resolution aimed only at removing ROTC's academic status will remain in the Committee on Education Policy...
Meanwhile, the CEP met yesterday to discuss a milder attack on ROTC. Six undergraduate representatives--four from the Harvard-Radcliffe Policy Committee (HRPC) and two from the Harvard Undergraduate Council (HUC)--presented arguments for removing academic credit from ROTC courses and denying ROTC instructors their corporation appointments...
...charges. Then an SEC examiner will conduct the public hearings, probably in Manhattan. If he and the commission uphold the accusations, Merrill Lynch could face penalties ranging from a wrist-tap censure to permanent revocation of its license to do business. The institutions would be subject to milder punishment. They could, for example, be barred from operating as broker-dealers, or lose their registration as investment advisers. But, except for Dreyfus Corp., which operates the well-known Dreyfus & Co. brokerage firm, almost none of them engage in such activities. In any case, the SEC's verdict can be appealed...
...days when student dissent took milder forms than it does now and the Death of God had not yet been widely announced, small groups of seminarians from fundamentalist Wheaton College used to appear at the edge of a 40-acre estate on the outskirts of Wheaton, Ill. They would kneel briefly in prayer and then scurry nervously away. Thirty years ago, it was an act that took courage: the estate had become headquarters of the Theosophical Society in America, a mysterious non-Christian movement often suspected of being more occult than cult. Praying for the souls of the benighted Theosophists...
...book that derides the search-and-destroy strategy devised by Army General William C. Westmoreland and scorns U.S. diplomats and politicians for trusting "corrupt" Vietnamese generals who rule in Saigon. At first, Marine Commandant Leonard F. Chapman Jr. contemplated a court-martial for Corson, but he was prompted to milder punishment by second thoughts about publicly airing the long-festering quarrels between the Army and Marines...