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Defusing Protests. There was still the possibility that last-minute Communist attacks would disrupt the balloting, but the campaigning took place in an atmosphere of relative normality. The military front remained quiescent. U.S. battle deaths dropped to 52 for the past week, the lowest toll in 4½ years. The cities were also peaceful. President Nguyen Van Thieu has defused chronic student protest by releasing jailed students. He also succeeded in mollifying the raucous disabled war veterans, who roll to their riots in wheelchairs, by granting them more liberal benefits...
Many black communities around the land seem sufficiently quiescent on the surface, but that does not mean that their frustrations have vanished. "It's like a volcano," says New York's Ted Gross, a Lindsay aide. "Underneath, it's bubbling." Guerrilla warfare may replace open rioting in the larger cities, as black militants zero in on selected targets in the white community and then retreat to the ghetto. Bombings of police stations by radicals, white or black, have already become a big-city fact of life. Violence is unpredictable: Chicago's blacks did not revolt when...
HENCE the beginning of the one thing that completely shattered the quiescent Faculty structure-the formation of the liberal and conservative caucuses...
Campus Violence. On campus the Cambodian foray brought new eruptions. At comparatively quiescent Princeton, nearly 2,000 students immediately called a "provisional" strike. At New Haven, which was broadly advertised in advance as a new Chicago, demonstration organizers cooled the crowds almost as rebuttal of Nixon's charge of anarchy (see story, page 79). In effect, Nixon reawakened the dormant peace movement. The New Mobilization Committee announced a White House demonstration...
DURING the past week. President Nixon has given the anti-war movement opportunities which that movement has not enjoyed for over two years, since President Johnson moved to halt the bombing of North Vietnam. The war. a quiescent issue in recent months, is once again a matter of urgent public concern. The support which Nixon mustered for his ill-defined policies of Vietnamization and phased withdrawal is now uncertain. Many Americans, not merely those on college campuses, now feel that Nixon plans not to end the war but to extend it indefinitely, over more years and more Asian nations...