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...civil rights suits. The New York Times rushed to the defense of academic freedom which it perceived as under attack, editorializing: "Surely Harvard law students should be able to make up their own minds about a teacher on the basis of what he teaches." Black syndicated columnist Carl T. Rowan concluded of the episode. "Now we have black students in the exalted climes of Harvard declaring all whites guilty of something--because they are white." Harvard Government professor Martin Kilson, also Black, wrote a piece for the Washington Post in which he blasted the "Ethnic Arrogance" of the students...
...editorial coverage, particularly Carl T Rowan's analysis, has indicated a gross misunderstanding of the history and the goal of our boycott...
...intellectual, anti-civil rights behavior from youngsters who would not be at Harvard except that millions of Americans of all races fought courageously for generations against racists, know-nothing politicians and the elitists who argued that education and constitutional safeguards should go only to a privileged few." --Carl T. Rowan, The Washington Post, August...
...have passed along the rumor, as the Post had, that Blair House was bugged while the Reagans were staying there before the Inauguration? A chorus of nos. What made the poll piquant was that aside from TIME's Hugh Sidey, all of the panelists (James J. Kilpatrick, Carl Rowan, George Will) are columnists in the Post, and the Agronsky show itself is owned and produced by the Washington Post Co. Such mumbling in the ranks might comfort those who worry that the Post's journalistic monopoly in Washington might stifle dissent, but little else was comforting about...
Most complicated of all is the issue of nuclear proliferation (see box) and the argument invoked by the Israelis that any strike against a nuclear installation that it perceives to be a threat is justified. That course is foolhardy. As Columnist Carl Rowan wrote in the Washington Star: "If Israel's nuclear nonproliferation strike is right and proper, then would it not be equally moral for an aggressor to attack suspected nuclear weapons in Israel...