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Objectives and tactics were roughed out by group members at a meeting Friday. Organizers stressed the importance of getting information to the GI's-particularly Article I of the Bill of Rights-and the need for restraint and non-violence...
During the term that ended last week, the United States Supreme Court had its first new Chief Justice in 16 years. Warren Burger was chosen by President Richard Nixon in the hope that he would direct the court toward a new era of judicial restraint, a pullback from the activism and controversy of the Warren Court. The outcome was just that, but it was not really Burger's doing so much as it was the U.S. Senate's. A seat on the court remained empty for virtually the entire term, the result of the Senate's rejections...
...heading." After President Nixon's latest speech on the economy, Rinfret again changed his mind. "It was a turning point in economic policy," he says. "The odds modestly favor an upturn in the second half of the year. Both fiscal and monetary policy have shifted from restraint to expansion." As Rinfret sees it, the Administration was forced to stop using these two main weapons against inflation in order to avoid a financial panic. Now he adds: "The only way left to fight inflation is with controls. Don't be surprised if the next move is direct intervention...
...great many of the young who use the flag without restraint are very serious indeed, even if they deliberately employ shock tactics for effect. Says Sal Arnold, a 19-year-old Chicago hippie: "None of us hates the country. We love the country?what it's supposed to be." A friend of his, Ray Meyerbach, adds: "The intentions of the founding fathers?they're really groovy. We're saying it's the ideal that's important, not how you show the flag...
...problem would go away. Unwilling to find fault, reluctant to look into unpleasant facts and call them by their right names, eager to avoid controversy, trying above all to be understanding, perhaps a majority of us have been less insistent than we might- while continuing patiently to practice restraint- to observe the scholar's inescapable obligation for critical analysis and hard appraisal, or the citizen's duty to work strenuously to improve, but not to destroy, the hardwon structures of our public life. Not unlike those who twenty years ago imagined and deeply hoped there was something to be said...