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...year of churning unrest on U.S. campuses, an old issue flamed anew at two large universities: whether college students should be allowed to hear Communists or other speakers whose politics range far from the U.S. mainstream...
Amid the waves of campus unrest rolling across the U.S., the University of Maryland was a sea of tranquillity; not a picket had been visible on campus all year. Properly impressed, Maryland President Wilson H. Elkins last month commended his 22,000 students for "their orderly conduct and constructive criticism," and deplored "the small groups" at other campuses, "which flout regulations, oppose any authority and confuse freedom with license to do as they wish...
...report was directed by Jerome C. Byrne, 39, a labor-law specialist and honors graduate of Harvard Law School, whose partnership in the respected Los Angeles law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher made him seem a sensible choice to investigate the eight months of unrest at Cal. But when Regent Chairman Edward Carter saw the report, he angrily called Byrne a "young, inexperienced guy, unaware of the pitfalls in a university administration." President Clark Kerr buttoned his lip, but was reported to be upset...
Vladimir Dedijer, leader of the Yugo-slav partisan movement, said last night that in a successful revolutionary movement, there mist be a balance between the "role of ideology and the role of social unrest...
...root of the unrest lies Italy's chronic inflation - a problem which Premier Aldo Moro's Socialist-Christian Democratic coalition government has had a hard time handling. Moro is due to visit Washington this week, but if things go on as they have been, he may find the whole country on strike when he returns. Sophisticated Romans shrugged it all off as just another piquant manifestation of life in Italy today. Not Milan's Corriere della Sera, which warned that the strike wave of 1919-22 "exasperated the population and was a cause - far from secondary...