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...still stands as the major instrument by which the Faculty can suppress free speech through the threat of disciplinary action against political protesters. It has long been the position of this newspaper that the CRR should be abolished. Nothing has happened during the CRR boycott to change that position. Even those who advocate mere reform of the CRR must agree that a unified boycott is the only weapon students have left. It should...
...that Dudevant, who liked to hunt, drink and sleep, had little in common with his intellectual bride. Initially Sand tried to be the perfect and obedient young wife and mother. The attempt did not last. She soon began to question why she, rather than her "master," was required to suppress what was of personal importance...
Under pseudonyms the law student writes verse that gives credence to his comment 50 years later: "Some of one's early writings give one the creeps." Indeed they do, along with Stevens' revulsion for "niggers" and "little Jews." Yet these juvenile scrawls and racist stereotypes cannot long suppress the great soul that was attempting to find its voice. With lively scholarship and none of the protection normally afforded fathers by their biographical daughters, Holly Stevens traces the origins of the rhetorician. The "green, hilly, sunny-cloudy place" becomes the setting for the quatrain known to all English majors...
...unclear whether most of the unrest is being caused by last-ditch supporters of the discredited radicals or by squabbling factions trying to settle old scores with political enemies. Whatever the reason, stringent measures are being taken to suppress troublemakers, who have been denounced as "criminal gangs." Earlier Hua was forced to send 12,000 troops into Fukien province to deal with "sabotage." From Yunnan last week came stern warnings that "we must resolutely suppress the counterrevolutionaries who beat, wreck and loot...
...grant. We have accepted these funds with the clear understanding that we are in no way obligated by this to voice positions favorable to the Park regime. In fact, we wish to take this occasion to affirm our opposition to the measures taken by the Park government to suppress basic human liberties within South Korea. The widespread control apparatus maintained by the Korean CIA, the torturing, imprisonment, and even execution of Korean citizens because they have spoken out against the regime, the censorship of the Korean press and postal system, and, most of all, the intense aura of fear created...