Agnew Criticizes Scranton Report

SIOUX FALLS, S. D., Sept, 29-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew denounced the President's commission on campus unrest report as "imprecise, contradictory, and equivocal."

In a campaign speech before South Dakota Republicans, Agnew was especially critical of the commission's call for leadership by the President in quelling unrest. "To lay responsibility for ending student disruptions at the doorstep of the President-in office 20 months-is scapegoating of the most irresponsible sort," Agnew said.

Agnew said, "In the indiscriminate fashion in which it diffuses responsibility, in the total unfairness of the most widely publicized recommendation, in the thin rationalization for student disruption, the report comes out in its over-all impression imprecise, contradictory, and equivocal."

"It is sure to be taken as more Pablum for permissiveness," Agnew said.

Agnew said that primary responsibility for disorder lies with faculties and administrators. "The President cannot replace the campus cop," he said.

The Vice-President's speech was the most severe attack on the commission's report yet to be leveled by a member of the Nixon administration; however, White House speech writers traveling with the Vice-President said the statement could not necessarily be interpreted as representing the views of the President.