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CERTAIN MEMBERS of the audience at a last week's conservative club-sponsored "Contra" lecture came with a somewhat different purpose in mind than most. They came not to hear the man speak but to shout him down. Needless to say, they achieved their objective; the man was not heard. But in this case the result was a pyrrhic victory...
...this formulation, Mr. Crystal, assuming that he and those who agree with him already possess the moral high ground, absolves the protestors' actions because of what he sees as the special immediate circumstances. One wonders if Mr. Crystal would see such extenuating circumstances if the Conservative Club were to shout down or physically abuse a Sandinista speaker in anything approaching the way of the anti-contra protesters...
This is a powerful statement, and one that led many protesters Wednesday night to shout down a Contra spokesman in Boylston Hall...
...Shout, Shout...
...legislative battle." Indeed, the politics of protest are already under way. In Massachusetts last week, many obstetricians were refusing new patients in a fight against rising insurance rates. In Georgia, where insurers have requested rate increases averaging 38%, 1,500 doctors marched on Atlanta two weeks ago to shout support for a legislative effort to restrain malpractice lawsuits. Some just say it with a bumper sticker: LET THE LAWYERS DELIVER THE BABIES...