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The American political system--increasingly beset with violence--is approaching a crisis, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, director of the Harvard-M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Studies, said last night.
Speaking to an audience of 100 at Kirkland House, Moynihan said, "The most compelling phenomenon in the United States today is the advent of a level of violence that no one believes to be characteristic of our society."
Moynihan included both Negro riots and the war in Vietnam as parts of this violence.
Johnson's Campaign
The 1968 Presidential election will be the first in which a candidate, President Johnson, does not dare campaign in the streets, Moynihan said. An organized effort of intimidation will prevent him from campaigning in a normal manner, he said.
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