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...page report prepared under the chairmanship of former Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton, a prominent Republican, the commission unavoidably announced its findings in the middle of an election campaign, with the certainty that the report itself will become part of the divisiveness it deplores. Republicans, led by Vice President Spiro Agnew, are campaigning hard on the law-and-order theme and have repeatedly identified Democrats with violence on the campus. But the commission-whose membership is predominantly Democratic-asked Richard Nixon to silence those who are trying to capitalize on the issue of campus unrest...
...conference that produced little hope for a change in the political atmosphere. Questioned about some of Agnew's speeches, Finch said: "I'm not going to pass judgment on individuals. We're all free to say what we please." In a press conference of his own, Scranton himself appeared reluctant to go much beyond the wording of the report...
...Even before the Scranton report was made public, the President had taken action on his own last week to clamp down on campus violence. In a move that meshed well with Republican campaign strategy, he asked Congress to add 1,000 FBI men to the existing force of 7,000 and make it a federal crime to bomb any "organization or institution receiving federal financial assistance"-a description fitting almost all colleges...
...commission, headed by former Pennsylvania governor William W. Scranton, used the Kent State experience to underline the recommendation of its main report last week, which called for a cooling of rhetoric on all sides, moral leadership by the President himself, and an end to the undue leniency of some college administrators and unwarranted harshness by some law enforcement officials...
Married. Jonathan Scranton Linen, 26, administrative assistant with the American Express Co. and son of James A. Linen, Chairman of the Executive Committee of Time Inc.; and Leila Haven Jones, 27, an editorial researcher at Reader's Digest and daughter of Gilbert E. Jones, board chairman of the IBM World Trade Corp.; in an Episcopal ceremony in Greenwich, Conn...