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...NSA, its opponents claim, is weak because it is a federation of student governments which are themselves weak, instead of an organization of individuals. A more workable federation, one member of the anti-NSA forces in Washington suggested in an interview last week, would include representatives from a variety of campus organizations, including SDS, SNCC, and religious clubs...
Even if American students can forgive the NSA--as the first week's reaction shows they might--things will not be so simple in countries where the CIA is something of a specter. In fact, foreign students who came to the United States under NSA exchange programs are now in danger of being accused by their own governments of espionage. NSA leaders realize that the organization has become highly suspect to foreign students as well as to their governments. When the story broke, they began a frenetic letter-writing campaign to explain the nature of the ties to leaders...
...matter how the foreign students react to an emancipated NSA itself, they have shown their fear of the CIA before. In Berlin, for example, students recently called on the mayor to halt CIA activities at the Free University. Recruitment of German students by the CIA was described in the New York Times on Monday. The CIA appears to have confined itself to individuals and there is no evidence that it funneled large-scale grants to student organizations...
...initial reaction of American member schools has been to support NSA. While the National Supervisory Board was meeting in near-continuous session in Washington last week, dozens of members sent favorable telegrams. Not one school had disaffiliated by the beginning of this week. Surprisingly, a number of new schools had asked permission to join--it seems as if the publicity is boosting NSA's membership...
Although member colleges have remained loyal, there is a faction of American students who frankly wish NSA had decided to fold instead. They feel that NSA is a failure as a national student union, and that its dissolution might be a step towards constructing a better...