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...neither case was the issue of "free speech" for the State Department ever at issue. While many faculty members and students questioned the tactics involved, the emphasis was at all times placed on the obvious fact that the government, not the students, is trying to suppress the expression of controversial views in this country. Clearly, the college administrations, faced with many other pressing problems, did not choose to cooperate in the stifling of their own constituents...
...even be possible to use the body's immunological mechanism, which now helps to protect it against other diseases, to combat cancer. Some researchers note that organ transplant recipients, who take large doses of drugs to suppress their immune reactions and prevent the rejection of foreign tissue, may develop cancer. Also, the immune system often fails to respond to many cancer cells, although they have unique antigens that should alert the body to their presence. Accordingly, doctors have begun exploring ways of beefing up the body's defenses and immunizing man against cancer in the same way that...
...affect the course of political events. Individuals representing institutions-such as the intended speakers for the YAF teach-in-already have power: They control the media; they direct the armed forces. They have the "freedom" to support and direct a vicious imperialist war. They have the power, to suppress protest against this war. When these people use their power in neglect of the people they officially represent, they must be stopped. The real issue, then, is finding the most effective means of stopping them. We may question the efficacy of stopping speech as a means of stopping action...
...newspaper editors involved were faced with a stickier problem: how to handle the stolen information. Inevitably such documents can contain inaccurate, outrageous "raw" data based on unchecked hearsay. Attorney General Mitchell's statement was a direct plea to the press to suppress the information at hand. Yet the Washington Post, quickly followed by the New York Times and Los Angeles Times, decided to publish accounts of the theft as well as the general contents of some of the documents. Said Ben Bagdikian, the Post's national editor, after a telephone call from Mitchell: "We thought...
...order issue has come to Harvard! Conservatives and liberals have gleefully joined forces to suppress conscientious radicals. For the first time we have successfully prevented the hateful propaganda of war supporters from receiving the kind of audience which they so desperately need in maintaining an aura of legitimacy around the war effort...