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...CAMPUS UNREST. Congressmen have readied a spate of bills to suppress campus disorder-and thus caused a fast turnaround by the Administration. As recently as mid-May, Attorney General John Mitchell assured Congress that there was no need for any such new measures. Yet last week, the White House put out word that it was considering legislation extending to federal courts the power to issue injunctions preventing students from disrupting classes. The aim is to head off more stringent legislation originating in Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Administration: Price of Neglect | 6/20/1969 | See Source »

...including Richard Nixon and Minnesota Senator Eugene McCarthy. Yet Stenvig carried all but two of the city's 13 wards. The result was all the more astonishing because, with a Negro population of just 3%, Minneapolis has suffered relatively little racial tension. Nor has there been much campus unrest. Like most cities, Minneapolis has a crime problem-though not one of panic proportions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The City: Contagion in Minneapolis | 6/20/1969 | See Source »

...equally hard blow, Chile requested that Rockefeller's visit there be canceled. Again, like Caldera, President Eduardo Frei Montalva, a friend of the U.S., was influenced by threats of unrest in response to the Rockefeller visit. In any case, some Chileans felt that a visit from President Nixon's envoy would be superfluous: this week, Foreign Minister Gabriel Valdés, acting on behalf of all Latin American countries, will present the President with a common-stand position paper that proposes new foundations-particularly in the economic field-for U.S.-Latin American relations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin America: Rocky's Rocky Path | 6/13/1969 | See Source »

...vetoed three stringent bills as "premature," including one that would have taken away disrupters' state scholarships. Even so, Rockefeller has signed three other bills that outlaw unauthorized firearms on campus, require new codes of campus behavior, and create a state commission to study the causes of college unrest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Students: The Legislatures React | 6/13/1969 | See Source »

...student radicalism, and activism. Others dismiss it as a "tiny minority." One expressed the feeling that students today are in a better position to challenge authority than ever before. He said students today are generally brighter and more politically oriented than ever before. Many expressed envy at the open unrest in today's college. "We didn't really think for ourselves. We just took what the establishment gave us," said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Class of 1944 Returns; Things Still the Same | 6/12/1969 | See Source »

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