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Which way campus protest? As a guide to this year's tumult-or peace -TIME herewith presents the first in a series of campus communiques. Last week, on most of the nation's 2,500 campuses, the big news was no news. But as always, there were exceptions of varying gravity...
Virtually everywhere they campaign, the scene is the same: Helmeted police, chanting, angry demonstrators, occasional scuffles, the din of derisive "Sieg Hell" and "Nazis out!" Not since the 1920s, when the Nazis were reaching for power, has a German political party provoked so much tumult and violence as the far-right, ultranationalist National Democratic Party. Chancellor Kiesinger, admitting that the N.P.D. is not purely neo-Nazi, describes it as "extremely harmful." Judging from the intensity of the oratory directed against the N.P.D., there are times when it sounds as if it were the party in power...
...reassuring to know there are still men with a clear understanding of our problems and wisdom to press for sensible solutions. I agree that today's youth movement is more filled with hate than idealism. Amid the shouts and tumult, they are begging for guidance, for a firm hand. Their fathers had failed them. University administrators and officials who yield to their unreasonable demands are also failing them. To these "revolutionaries," permissiveness and overindulgence by both parents and society is not a sign of love, but of weakness and decay...
...American racial revolt of the 1960s has in no sense been a full-scale upheaval like the French Revolution. Yet it can be said that in the relatively cool American summer of 1969, a Thermidor convalescence from the long fever of racial tumult seems to be under way. There has been no wholesale rioting in the black ghettos of the U.S. since the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in April 1968. By a Department of Justice count, the number of racial disturbances of all sizes has fallen off sharply in 1969 from the two previous summers (see chart, next...
...believe the day is not too far distant when the English people will, in effect, paraphrase Kipling by saying: The tumult and the shouting rise Let captains and the kings depart...