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William W. Scranton, chairman of the President's Commission on Campus Unrest, said yesterday that President Nixon's letter commenting upon the commission's report substantially supports the group's findings...
...letter dated Dec. 10 to William W. Scranton, chairman of the Commission, Nixon stated that responsibility for maintaining order on campus "rests squarely with the members of the academic community themselves...
...president refused to comment on the Scranton Commission's report on campus violence. Nixon said that the text of a letter he has sent to Scranton will be released within the next few days...
...when we must begin saying some of the things that were said in the 1950s, come hell or high water," White told a national meeting of educators in Washington, D.C. Clearly incensed by the grand jury's conclusionsdisputed by both a Justice Department report and the Scranton CommissionWhite called them a "local manifestation of a brewing national disaster." They reveal a "frightening misunderstanding of higher education." Colleges cannot shelter lawbreakers, said White, but neither can they become places "where ideasno matter how offensiveare to be suppressed...
...NORTHEAST. Pennsylvania Democrat Milton Shapp defeated Raymond Broderick by a 498,000-vote margin that astonished even Shapp. Under the reign of Governor Ray Shafer, political heir to the widely admired William Scranton, the state deficit rose to $500 million (the budget is currently $1.2 billion). Broderick's plans to cut spending antagonized large blocs of voters. Shapp, a wiry and intense millionaire, will become the Commonwealth's first Jewish Governor. "The people wanted a change," said Phrasemaker Shapp...