Word: aids
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Briefly stated, the radical argument for actions such as those of the November Action Coalition (NAC) is that certain projects within a university should be "stopped" because they serve an evil function-usually aiding the United States in suppressing people's liberation movements throughout the world. The task of radicals, therefore, is to build a movement which will become powerful enough to "stop" those projects. Tactics-violent or non-violent-cannot be considered on an a priori basis. but only in terms of what will most aid the building of the movement at a given point...
Four of the projects deal with applied weapons research-the Multiple Independently-targeted Re-entry Vchicle (MIRV), the ABM, the Moving Target Indicator, and the Helicopter Project. MIRV is an attempt to develop a first-strike nuclear capability. The U.S. could use the threat of this capability to aid its foreign policy. Both MIRV and ABM are enormous subsidies to the defense industries, and as such point to the distorted priorities of American corporate capitalism...
...three other projects are in the social sciences-Project Cambridge. Project Com-Com, and the International Communism Project. Each of these projects, the last of which is less important than the other two, involves research and applied technology that would be used in the aid of American foreign policy...
...responsibility of the entire community to protest against the war and the aid M.I.T. gives to it. Those against the counter-revolutionary policies of the U.S. government can no longer afford to do so on their own campuses or at their own jobs. Everyone who would truly like to see an immediate withdrawal from Victnam should support today's actions at M.I.T...
...practice we have been able to study a wide range of countries and topics ranging from planning models to income distribution and criticism of U.S. Aid Policy from a variety of points of view. In fact, I find it difficult to imagine any subject that would appeal to a serious scholar on which it would not be possible to work because of the sources of our financial support. This would include the functioning of socialist and communist societies, the factors conducive to social revolution and other examples suggested by Burke, MacEwan. and Bowles...