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...Kent State University, the FBI began an extensive investigation that eventually filled some 8,000 pages. Last week Attorney General John Mitchell announced that the reports did not warrant "further action by the Department of Justice." Mitchell said that he agreed with the President's Commission on Campus Unrest that the shooting was "unnecessary, unwarranted and inexcusable." But he found no evidence of a conspiracy among National Guardsmen to shoot the students. Nor, he said, was there any "likelihood of successful prosecutions of individual Guardsmen. We can only hope that any type of recurrence can be avoided by this...
While Ulster seethed, two governments fell in quick succession under persistent attack from such Protestant extremists as the Rev. Ian Paisley and former Home Minister William Craig. Brian Faulkner, Northern Ireland's third Premier in 23 months, took office last March in a period of rising unrest. As a gesture of conciliation, Faulkner advocated the establishment of three new parliamentary committees, two of which would be chaired by opposition members. But Protestant and Catholic alike were lukewarm to the plan. As friction increased early this summer, Catholic opposition leaders boycotted the Ulster Parliament and threatened to set up their...
...past five years. Moreover, nearly one in every two Americans regards national tensions as grave enough to "lead to a real breakdown in this country." There is a spreading lack of faith in both the nation's leadership and its institutions; only a small minority dismiss the national unrest as "the work of radicals and troublemakers." A clear majority agrees that the U.S. must end the war in Viet Nam, even at the risk of a Communist takeover...
Dunlop is widely recognized as the most powerful man on the Faculty, and first as acting dean and later as dean of the Faculty, he has wielded a heavy administrative hand during periods of student unrest and faculty dissension...
Alexander Heard, LL.D., chancellor of Vanderbilt University and White House adviser on campus unrest...