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Shockley did have at least one bright spot in his week, however, when the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) issued a statement criticizing "attempts to suppress unpopular opinions...
...AMERICAN Association of University Professors' attack last week on "attempts to suppress unpopular opinions" concerning race and intelligence addressed itself to a largely nonexistent issue...
Apart from meeting the Soviet challenge in Europe and elsewhere, Schlesinger must contend with the mo rale problems left over from Viet Nam, the nation's longest and most unpopular war. Some top-ranking officers are still bitter that the politicians interfered with their conduct of the war. Their resentment contributes to a crisis of the military spirit that infects all ranks and may well be more difficult to handle than the manifold problems of race, drugs and discipline...
...work overtime last November, the stakes in the government-labor standoff have gradually risen on both sides. For Heath, determined to preserve his anti-inflationary wage guidelines against the miners' demands for what the government claims is a 30% pay boost, it has meant a series of unpopular emergency measures, including a compulsory three-day work week, power cuts, rising unemployment and an economic slowdown. For the miners it has meant an unhappy choice between giving in to the government or digging in for a long, crippling siege that will bring irreparable wage losses and national chaos...
...image had been tarnished in recent years. The campaign of bombings, kidnapings, and assassination attempts that his revived underground organization, EOKA-B, conducted against the government of Archbishop Makarios had become increasingly unpopular among the island's inhabitants. Most Cypriot Greeks, while holding to enosis as a political ideal, had long recognized the impossibility of forcing the island's Turkish minority (20%) into accepting union with Greece. Even the government in Athens had condemned Grivas' terrorist campaign. And in Cyprus, the general's repute had sunk so low that the House of Representatives, just before...