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...effect at home was also encouraging to the Administration. Nixon realized that, sooner or later, the onus of his predecessor's war would have to become his burden. He is determined to avoid the loss of confidence that brought Lyndon Johnson down, and which, if duplicated now, would turn the U.S. bargaining position into dust. His tone of businesslike candor, as well as what he said, bought him at least some time...
Removing the Onus. The court injunction has become about the best legal weapon available to the universities. Within the past few months, it has worked not only at Columbia, but also at the University of Buffalo, Stanford and other schools. The governing body of the university, most often the board of trustees, obtains the court order. The writ usually covers both the demonstrators and opposing groups that might cause trouble. It restrains all persons from taking over buildings or causing other disruption...
More important, the injunction removes some of the onus of police action from the university. According to Sociologist Daniel Bell, the university that seeks such an order says: "These are our rules. We want you to take over and enforce them for us because we are, in effect, incapable of doing so." The universities are naturally reluctant to make their campuses wards of the court, but they are well aware that the judges have greater experience at law enforcement, and have the further advantage of not being directly involved in the conflict between students and the university...
...Japanese camps talked so freely that a Defense Department report concluded: "It is virtually impossible for anyone to resist a determined interrogator." In addition to revealing military facts, U.S. prisoners in World War II signed occasional false confessions; yet nothing much was made of it in the U.S. The onus was all on the enemy. Nor did enemy soldiers demonstrate any greater staying power in World War II. From Germans captured at Stalingrad, the Russians learned all of Hitler's plans for their conquest...
They are charged under a stringent Prisons Act that makes it a crime to publish false information on prisons without taking "reasonable" steps to verify it. The onus of proof is on the accused. The government no longer denies the main thrust of the Mail's stories, since ample evidence of prison brutality is now on the record. Instead, the charges against Gandar and Pogrund are based on legalistic quibbles. For instance, the prosecution does not dispute that prisoners were tortured with electric shocks-only that the newspaper said the shocks were administered on orders from a prison officer...