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Nevertheless, the young university leaders have no illusions about the enormous risks they are running. For they are challenging men whose power and influence depend on prolonged fighting. Sooner or later, Thieu, with American logistical support, will attempt to suppress dissension by physically liquidating its leadership. Still, the student peace advocates insist that regardless of any short-term success by the government in repressing their movement, new people will come to the foreground. Ultimately, they assure you, an independent peace will and must come...
...generation." For Reich weighs the American past and finds it wanton. The Consciousness I period is associated with the young Jeffersonian Republic-freedom-loving, egalitarian, expansive, democratic, though lamentably competitive. Its spirit stifled slowly, as America evolved into another political caricature, the pinched, repressive, committee-loving, life-suppressing, reform-minded meritocracy, which Reich seems to regard as something very like Hell on Earth. Decisive moments in this decline into bondage were the Great Depression, the New Deal, and the technological revolution that occurred after World War II. The New Deal, says Reich, was based on high-minded attempts at reform...
...Laird's rough guess. Thus there remains a serious question as to whether a volunteer Army would attract enough manpower to back up the U.S.'s worldwide commitments. Why is it being pushed so hard right now? Asked if the timing were political, Melvin Laird could not suppress a smile. "I don't know how you came to that conclusion," he replied...
...essence the Center cannot be distinguished from the general academic context of which it is a part. The demand to suppress it is in fact a demand to suppress freedom of academic research. Serious radicals ought to be the first to defend that freedom. Any effective effort to adapt and reform our society and the international order will depend heavily on the quality of thinking and knowledge on which it rests. The universities are one of the few places where such independent analysis can be carried on in a systematic way. If the extremists should succeed in disrupting the universities...
Prime Minister Trudeau, a Quebecborn millionaire with a master's degree from Harvard, stated that the exact measures to be imposed would be announced at 11 a. m. today. While the War Emergency Act grants his government virtually unrestricted powers to suppress insurrection, indications are that the measures announced yesterday will be largely limited to search and seizure without warrant and regulation of public assembly...