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IGNORING two protest letters from a cluster of usually pro-Administration academics, Secretary of State Dean Rusk has remained steadfast in his refusal to grant Yugoslavian author Vladimir Dedijer a visa to teach at M.I.T. this spring. Rusk's ban is clearly a frightened, anti-Communist reaction, revealing more clearly than ever how vulnerable the Administration considers itself on the Vietnam...
...serious breach of academic freedom, imposing a substantive restriction on the right of a university to hire anyone it chooses to teach its courses. A general application of Rusk's restriction would bar most of Europe's great philosophers, teachers, and other intellectuals from American universities--an action hardly in the long-range national interest...
...midst of Washington's worried deliberations over Viet Nam and Korea last week, Secretary of State Dean Rusk took time out to join Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler on a quiet but urgent mission to Little Rock, Ark. There, in The Coachman's Inn, the two Cabinet members spent a precious two hours and ten minutes with Representative Wilbur Mills in yet another effort to enlist his support for the President's tax bill. Mills, characteristically, was unimpressed...
...Rusk-Fowler trip pointed up the immense importance the White House attaches to both the tax increase and Mills's position as chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee. Lyndon Johnson has lined up his whole Cabinet, the Federal Reserve Board and battalions of bankers, businessmen and economists behind the tax bill. But standing against this seemingly irresistible tide is Wilbur the Willful, an immovable sea wall...
...necessary or desirable. He profoundly disagrees with Johnson's policy of attempting to finance the Viet Nam war and domestic social reforms simultaneously, insists that spending will have to be reduced somewhere. "If I asked the American taxpayer to pull in his belt," Mills said after the. Rusk-Fowler visit, "I would expect the Government to do the same thing." Since the Johnson Administration feels that it cannot sweat anything out of the war budget, the effect of Mills's position has been to bring the Great Society to a sudden, painful pause. Moreover, Mills is being unduly...