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...time, the main reason for Nixon's choice?Burger's stand on law and order ?may seem far less important than it does today. New issues and new problems almost certainly will arise, and may very well overshadow the controversies of today. The question before the court of the '70s may not be criminal rights but citizen rights. Columbia Political Scientist Alan Westin, for instance, sees an impending collision between the old system of government, which depends upon political parties and established bureaucracy, and the new demands for participation by the poor and the powerless. There will be constant...
Dogs of War. Eight professors went to Sacramento to ask Governor Ronald Reagan to pull out the troops, but Reagan supported Madigan's tough stand. "Once the dogs of war have been unleashed," the Governor lectured, "you must expect things will happen." One professor in the delegation, Leon Wofsy, accused Reagan of making a political speech and undercutting the authority of college administrators by trying to fire chancellors who opposed the statehouse. At that, Reagan slammed his hand on the desk, shouting: "Listen, you are a liar! I've fought to keep politics out of the running...
...cave in even before the students exercise any pressures. It is the continuous worry about what the militant students may do next, the anxious efforts to give them no offense, which saps the universities of their strength so that they become paralyzed. This anxious avoidance of taking a firm stand gives not only these militants, but also many non-committed students the feeling that they have the faculty on the run, because these adults are not sure about their values...
...colleges and universities would feel sure about themselves, take a determined stand against any coercion and intimidation--though always not only open to, but inviting, reasonable, non-coercive discussion about how things could be improved (and much improvement is needed, as I suggested all along)--then I believe student rebellions could be so reduced as to no longer threaten the universities and because of the consequences, possibly even all of society...
Anticipating the sort of problems that have plagued New Mexico, eleven of the 50 states have never joined the Medicaid program. At least four of them -Virginia, New Jersey, Tennessee and North Carolina-are fairly certain to, sign up by the Jan. 1, 1970 deadline; after that date, nonmembers stand to lose federal funds that support alternative programs for the medically indigent. Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana and Mississippi are hoping that the deadline will be extended, but are not expected to join Medicaid before Jan. 1 in any case. Two states have special problems: Alaska, which would have to take...