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This February, when radical students from the University of California, Santa Barbara, burned down the Bank of America branch office at Isla Vista, the New Left suffered a significant moral setback. A majority of moderates, on and off campus, condemned the act and the ideology that sparked it as outrageous. In the weeks that followed, most moderates denied that police and public officials were overreacting to the community's small radical faction, despite the accidental police shooting of Student Kevin Moran (TIME...
...curfew was dropped last Friday, but such was the disgust for both police and radicals following the outbreak that some residents are considering leaving Isla Vista. Patricia Thompson, 25, the mother of two preschoolers, is one of them. "I work at the bank and my husband works in the ROTC office on campus," she said. "We want to move out of Isla Vista. The problem is, the only transfer my husband could get would be to go back to Viet Nam. Right now it looks like a toss...
Later that night, some of the local radicals assemble in a rickety frame house by the railroad tracks, amid scented candles and tequila. They do not seem especially traitorous: a dozen people in their 20s, a young minister, some teachers, some Vista and other OEO workers. The stories about trouble in El Dorado spill out: kids busted for selling an underground paper, a teacher dismissed for his unorthodox ways, poor people and blacks (El Dorado has only a few) deprived of their rightful unemployment benefits. The complaints are utterly earnest, sincere, not negligible-yet not major, either. One feels that...
Like a brooding King Lear, Bernard Cornfeld sat in the forbidding, gray stone, mock medieval Villa Bella Vista on the shores of Lake Geneva. The villa, which used to echo with the pop of Moët et Chandon corks and the giggles and squeals of female employees, was hushed. Every day last week, the 23 directors of Investors Overseas Services Ltd., holding company for Cornfeld's $2 billion European mutual-fund complex, sipped black coffee and mineral water well into the night as they sought a way out of the company's financial crisis. They were trying...
...weeks ago, Kevin Patrick Moran, 22, an honors student at the University of California, Santa Barbara, was killed by a bullet as he attempted to put out a fire at the beleaguered Isla Vista branch of Bank of America (TIME, April 27). It was widely reported that he had been shot by a sniper, while he and other moderate students dealt directly with the attacking radicals...