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...pressing for social reforms. In January, Madrid's bar association passed by acclamation a resolution demanding better treatment for political prisoners. News papers and magazines, given comparatively comprehensive freedoms by the press law of 1966, had become more and more candid in their appraisals of the regime. Labor unrest continued to grow...
...wants to put down riots themselves, not deal with the conditions that create them," said Leslie F. Griffin '70, president of the AAAAS. The prospectus of the course, "Planning 113b," states that "The American ghetto problem is better known than understood, as riots and continuing unrest demonstrate . . . It is obviously desirable to minimize such effects, to inhibit this kind of violence and to mitigate its impact on our society...
...abolished at BU last spring and at Penn this fall, and in both instances the Pentagon found ways to keep ROTC on those campuses. Dean Glimp in fact told the faculty that the Pentagon was willing to be "flexible" about course credit; that they realized the potential of student unrest and were willing to make concessions to forestall it. In the context of this "flexibility," the SFAC-HUC-HPC resolutions, regardless of intent, would have the objective effect of keeping ROTC here: "In my considered judgment, the withdrawal of academic credit for Army ROTC courses at Harvard would...
...better to prevent than cure," said Information Minister Manuel Fraga Iribarne. "From this moment, the full weight of the law will fall on inciters of unrest and their followers...
...clamping a state of emergency on his increasingly restive nation. The move came after fiery student demonstrations in Madrid and Barcelona; the regime charged that students had been misled by "wicked and ambitious persons" employing a "strategy aimed at producing an orgy of nihilism, anarchism and disobedience." Student unrest, however, was only part of the story. During the past sev eral years, the long quiescent opposition to Franco had taken on sufficient stat ure to cause serious worry among the conservatives in the regime. When the crackdown came, it was characteristically harsh...