Another disturbing swallow...
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At 1:20 PM +0000 20/12/2001, Guardian Unlimited wrote:
>Today, Duncan Campbell in Los Angeles says course funds are threatened
>and professors denounced and suspended for organising teach-ins on
>the war and voicing criticism of American foreign policy.
>
>The universities of the United States often become the battlegrounds
>on which ideological and political wars are waged so it should be no
>surprise that there have been some metaphorical skirmishes taking
>place on campuses over the last three months.
>
>What is interesting is that it is the academics rather than the
>students that are getting involved more publicly in the dust-ups.
>
>Liberal academics who have organised teach-ins on the war, voiced
>opposition or criticised American foreign policy, claim that they
>have been identified as unpatriotic and that funding of their courses
>is now at risk.
>
>They blame the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA), the
>conservative watchdog group founded by Lynne Cheney, wife of the
>vice-president, and Senator Joe Lieberman, for targeting them.
>
>* Read on here
>http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,621053,00.html
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