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Last week a six-officer general-court-martial board, four of them Viet Nam war veterans, turned aside attempts by Lockman's attorneys to argue that the order was unlawful because the war is "illegal and unjust." The board took eleven minutes to find Lockman guilty, 20 minutes to agree on a sentence of 30 months hard labor, loss of pay and dishonorable discharge...
...censor and chastise those whose work strays far from the official art form known as "socialist realism." For those who may ever have doubted it, Minister of Culture Ekaterina Furtseva recently gave assurances that the party is not about to reverse its literary policy and publish books that contain "unjust generalizations," such as Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago. Last week the regime amnestied tens of thousands of petty criminals, but it did not free Writers Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel, who are serving long sentences in hard-labor colonies for publishing abroad works critical of the government...
...anti-research pressure comes from professors in the liberal arts, who rarely land even an unclassified Government contract and thus can easily afford to complain that secret research is academically immoral. In addition to the argument that such research commits the university to aiding what they consider an unjust war, the anti-secrecy professors contend that classified contracts violate the spirit of free inquiry on which scholarship depends and that they make professors agents of the Government...
That end could have been served with less harsh punishment. It could have been served had there been instead of punishment a firm definition of the University's policy towards future demonstrations. The penalty was needlessly severe. More important, the assignment of punishment was arbitrary and unjust...
...measures that have been suggested so far can be anything but arbitrary, unjust, and offensive. Punishing a handful of randomly selected scapegoats will stir, not deter, rancorous anti-University protests. It will weaken, not encourage, respect for the rules. Most important, it would simply be unreasonable, and there is no compelling reason for the University to rush headlong now into harsh action...