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To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

Your article covering the demonstration at the Freund Hearing ignored the most interesting exchanges between Dean Price and demonstrators:

Q. What do you think of ROTC?

A. I think ROTC is an excellent program.

Q. Isn't the main function of the military to further American imperialism in Asia, Latin America, Africa, and Europe?

A. America is the richest country in the world and must protect itself.

Q. You seem to have a long history of participation in these sorts of committees.

A. (Puzzlement) You couldn't be alluding to the fact that I worked for the Defense Department in the early Fifties?

(Then came his denial of membership in any Harvard purge committees of the mid Fifties.)

The quotes are not verbatim but are accurate to the best of my memory. Dean Price is well suited to his role in the purge. His practiced eye sees through the facade of a fight against ROTC and Harvard expansion and gets to the real core of the difficulty-misconduct, just like that of the Vietnamese and the Colombian students attacking Rockefeller, envious as they are of American riches. Norman Daniels, H.R SDS

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