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Grave Disservice. Two of California's major newspapers, the Hearst Los Angeles Herald-Examiner and the Chandler-controlled Los Angeles Times (both families are represented on the board of regents), agreed editorially that Kerr's dismissal had been motivated by his longtime failure to quell student rebellion. The Times proposed that "doom criers," who talk about the university facing "a crisis from which it may not recover, do grave disservice to the university and to those who must cope with its problems." So far, at least, there was little evidence that Kerr's dismissal would have much...
...currently trying to calm everyone down. Some guard factories, others hand out leaflets urging opponents of Chairman Mao's "Cultural Revolution" to give up. Such passive support may be enough. If it isn't if the opposition becomes stronger, young men in the PLA may be ordered to quell resistance in their own villages, or even worse, among rebel PLA units...
...wins parole). And some trucking employers are admittedly anxious for his early return; only Hoffa, they are convinced, can keep his men in line. Indeed, Detroit's Teamsters staged a 24-hour walkout last week in protest against the Supreme Court decision, forcing Hoffa to rush home and quell the strike at an emotional meeting. "Return to your jobs!" he cried. "Don't take the law into your own hands or you'll hurt me! Don't do it! Please...
...Negro civil rights workers, Cicero, Ill. (pop. 70,000), is a symbol of Northern discrimination-a Selma without the Southern drawl. The last time a Negro tried to live in Cicero, in 1951, city police harassed him, then did little to quell three days of rioting as mobs burned his possessions and wrecked his apartment. Some 3,000 National Guardsmen finally restored order but, from that day to this, no Negro has openly sought residence in the town that gave Al Capone haven, a suburb of Chicago that is largely populated by blue-collar workers of East European extraction...
...past Mao always tottered forth eventually to quell the rumors about his health. This time-the longest absence in memory-there has been only an announcement by Peking's Foreign Ministry: "Rumors of Chairman Mao's physical condition are quite nonsense and malicious, false rumors of imperialism...