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Kuchel's speech probably changed no minds; few speeches on Viet Nam ever do. But it did prompt Morton and Cooper to "clarify" their own demands for a bombing halt by explaining that they would not approve of such a step if it left U.S. servicemen in jeopardy...
...Prompt action could easily forestal a sensational student response to the Committee's rebuff--the kind of well-publicized demonstration, already being proposed, that the Record American has been waiting four years to cover. Better still, it could consign future discussion of parietals to the inaudibility the issue so richly deserves...
...danger that any intensification of the war could prompt Chinese intervention has receded with the turmoil brought on by Peking's Proletarian Cultural Revolution, but it has not disappeared. As for increasing the bombing, there is a hazard that it would stir hope in the U.S. that a little more bombing will end the war-and thus pave the way for a later letdown and demands for peace at any price...
...Jose President Robert D. Clark immediately ordered public hearings on all the charges. As counterthreats against Edwards' life mounted, he canceled a football game that Edwards had promised to disrupt. Clark then conceded that the charges were valid, ordered prompt steps to correct the conditions. "The first step is rational debate," explained the triumphant Edwards, "but the biggest single lever we had is the threat of violence." The new Negro mood means that few college administrators can be confident that the new academic year will be nonviolent...
...cost $350 million in New York City. The current fiscal year's total is expected to rise to $420 million, and $600 million the following year. The system in the city is so snarled and complaints are so loud that Mayor John Lindsay last week asked for a prompt report...