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Federal authorities indeed had considerable reason to be worried about internal security at that time. The bomb threats in the cities were real, but Nixon's accounting of student unrest is too broad. Most campus demonstrations were legal; few colleges were shut down for long periods. At any rate, however grim the threat may have seemed, it is hard to believe that existing law-and-order forces could not cope with it. The CIA informed Nixon in 1969-70 that there was no conclusive evidence that either U.S. radicals or black extremists ?the "guerrilla-style groups" that Nixon referred...
When Nixon took office, he was confronted by much the same climate of urban unrest and growing racial militancy. He also had to cope with new dangers-bomb-throwing anarchists, skyjackers and an exploding drug traffic. White House officials quickly encouraged the Army to step up its domestic intelligence operations. Within two years, the Army had 25 million "personalities" on file. One of the victims, Adlai Stevenson HI, then Illinois state treasurer, was to call the operation "Kafka in khaki." The dismantling of the Army's internal counterinsurgency department was not begun until 1971, and then only in response...
Judge Byrne, 42, a blond and sporty bachelor who once directed President Nixon's Commission on Campus Unrest, came to his decision after 4½ long months of trial. Not until its final weeks were the murky beginnings of the case disclosed. Perhaps as early as 1969, and certainly by early 1970, the FBI knew that Ellsberg, then a consultant with the Rand Corp. "think tank" in Santa Monica, Calif., was copying parts of the Pentagon papers at night on a Xerox machine in an advertising-agency office...
...Student unrest at Harvard began, really, with criticism of President Pusey in the early sixties. The Crimson ran a week-long series of editorials, later known as "Pusey Week," lambasting the President on every conceivable front. But the series was reflective of, more than disparate from, the general student opinion of Pusey...
Their deaths last December were violent evidence of a serious new form of prison unrest. They did not die in an ordinary penitentiary riot, but in a full-scale street-gang rumble, transported virtually intact from the Chicago slums into the prison. Gang activity now plagues penal systems not only in Illinois but in California, New Jersey and New York, among others. Indeed, nearly every prison that draws inmates from large urban areas these days must deal with gangs operating behind bars...