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...presentation to the events of 1968. I pointed out that it was the unwarranted brutality of the "granaderos" or riot police that provided the "trigger" and that a major predisposing background factor was the students dislike of the corruption and excessive power of the ruling Revolutionary Institutional Party (PRI), a party that generally garners about 90-95% of the presidential vote. I ended by calling for the freedom of the students in prison...
...hell" broke out in the audience and they applauded enthusiastically. A PRI functionary denounced me as a foreigner who had no right to criticize Mexico and its institutions. Professor Lipset then publicly supported my right to speak, especially since the conference was dealing with violence. He pointed out that of all student disturbances around the world, many more students were killed in Mexico than anywhere else in the world. He, too, shocked our conference hosts by publicly calling for the freedom of the students in prison. He previously had been denounced in the Mexican press as a "leader...
Opposition to the report has been pri-marily focused on the section dealing with marijuana. State Senator Beryl W. Cohen, Senate chairman of the committee, said Tuesday that ten of its 11 members would refuse to sign the report until the provision recommending legalization of marijuana is deleted...
...they are being forced to pay the real price of in tegration while assorted social planners and liberal moralists retreat at night to their suburban fastnesses. Such whites view bussing, for example, as a scheme to move their chil dren to worse public schools while rich children escape to pri vate schools. In typical response, a West Coast carpenter moonlights without reporting his side income. "Screw the Government," he says. "They just give it to some black bas tard anyway for doing nothing...
...about his candidacy for mayor of New York. The celebrated author of The Naked and the Dead, more recently of The Armies of the Night, which won him a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize, is one of a field of five in next week's Democratic pri mary. Best known among the others are Robert Wagner, mayor from 1954 until Republican John Lindsay took over in 1966, and Mario Procaccino, the city controller...