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...behavior of the SDS reprehensible in its own right, but it is essentially irrelevant to the issue. To allow this subject to be fought out at this level is to accept the proposition that the substantive issues involved are unimportant or meaningless, and, whoever "wins." this would further weaken the position of the forces of legitimate scholarship and intellectual freedom. It is, as I say, encouraging to find that there are 107 courageous members of the academic community who recognize the paramount importance of the substantive issues involved and their implications for public policy and who are demanding that this...
...reduced by an air conditioner that absorbs dust," he says. These are long-range goals, however, and not likely to have an immediate effect. Yet despite their low productivity, service workers' pay will continue to rise in Phase II, which will tend to press up prices and weaken the drive against inflation...
...federal court on the West Coast has ruled that the First Amendment protected Earl Caldwell (a New York Times reporter who has covered the Black Panthers) in his refusal to appear for questioning, since his appearance would weaken his ability to obtain information from this "sensitive" source...
Shaky Claim. The debate is wrapped in enormous practical and psychological importance for the principals. For Peking, expulsion of the rival who has held the seat marked "China" for two decades would be a tremendous victory. For Taipei, expulsion would further weaken Chiang Kai-shek's shaky claim to head the legitimate government not only of Taiwan but of all China. For Moscow, the debate underscores an agonizing conflict between its long-standing hostility to Peking and its longer-standing commitment to support a fellow Communist regime. For the Nixon Administration, preoccupied with a possible clash among right-wingers...
...private meetings, he has personally pitched the U.S. policy of U.N. membership for both Peking and Taipei to no fewer than 90 foreign ministers. He has sought to emphasize, as he put it last week, that "a precedent might be created on the question of expulsion which would weaken the U.N. as an organization...