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Perhaps the national attention focused on the elections explains student indifference to local issues. Still, the Graduate Student Union, which came very close to striking over teaching fellows' salaries last Spring, has dwindled in number and strength. Sam Popkin went to jail over disclosure of sources in the Pentagon Papers case this Fall, and the news was received with distressed yawns. The CRR is old hat, and boring. More recently, the New American Movement has been pushing leaflets about "political" hirings and firings in three Harvard Departments; most leaflets have found their way unread to the trash basket...
Samuel L. Popkin, lecturer on Government, refused to comment last night on the new bill. He said that he was unwilling to discuss anything he had not read...
...Popkin refused last fall to discuss before a Federal grand jury confidential sources who had contributed to his research. He was found in contempt of court and spent several days in jail...
...editorial in the February issue says that the University "did not decisively, commandingly defend Samuel Popkin, the First Amendment, or a citizen's right to be free from government harassment...
Harvard took no official stand on Popkin's case till after his release, though President Bok defended him in court during his last trial and Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel of the University, worked with his lawyers throughout the case