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...Class of '54, for better or worse, attended college during one of the more tranquil times in our country's history. In their 25th reunion questionnaire, many expressed their regret at attending college 15 years before the storm, just as some students today long for the activism and campus unrest their older brothers and sisters experienced while in college. In the early '50s the Korean War anb the battle against American Communists shared the headlines with phone booth-stuffing contests and hula-hoop exhibitions; at Radcliffe the students thought more of the latter than of the former. Though the military...
...demonstrating students in your photo of the racial unrest at Cornell University in April 1969 [April 16], I was disappointed that you made no effort to explain the fundamental reasons why those troubled events occurred...
...Moreover, bureaucratic hassling of Soviet Jews who apply for exit visas has declined dramatically. It may be that the Soviets now would simply be glad to get rid of the problem. By letting some dissidents leave, U.S. officials suggest, the Soviets can eliminate them as focal points for unrest. Similar reasoning may have helped persuade the Kremlin to permit freer emigration by Jews. Said Adam Ulam, a Russian expert at Harvard: "From the Soviet point of view, once you cannot shoot people on a large scale, they might as well be allowed to migrate...
...Chase Manhattan have huge loans out to India, Pakistan, Turkey and many other countries. Fears are rising that sooner or later some borrowers will not be able to afford even their interest payments. The threat is not simply of defaults leading to instability, but of worsening hunger and unrest among the world's more than 1 billion subsistence-level people...
Another long-range effect of the strike, according to many faculty members, was the time it took away from scholarship. "Attention was so diverted to all of those committees and commissions that many professors couldn't produce much on their own," says Maass, who claims that campus unrest affected productive scholarship for five years or more. "Some Faculty members got very sidetracked--they spent a lot of time on issues they didn't known much about," May says...