Word: antiwar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most committee members said that such a change would help to alleviate widely-expressed fears that the club was designed to conduct activities related to ROTC itself--a military training program for students that was officially forced off campus in 1969 following Harvard's most violent period of antiwar protests...
...radical minority party, the Greens (named after its environmentalist beginnings), scurried to ready the city's Meistersingerhalle for a bizarre three-day "war-crimes tribunal." Among those who would testify before an audience of Greens supporters and sympathizers were survivors of Nazi concentration camps and Hiroshima, antiwar activists and military experts from West Germany, the U.S. and other countries...
DESCRIPTIONS of West Germany's young Green Party inevitably invite comparison with American civil rights and antiwar movement leaders of the 1960s. A Wall Street Journal article recently called the Greens "a lively, irreverent, topsy-turvy coalition of assorted left-wingers who decided they are both a party and a movement." At last year's national Green party convention, dogs raced around the podium and paper airplanes flew during the proceedings. But what was once considered a ragtag, disorganized group of hippies has taken practical steps towards gaining power and turning rhetoric into public policy--enough so that the older...
...activities. According to a State Department official, as much as $600 million may have been spent so far on the peace offensive. Using national Communist parties or recognized Communist-front organizations like the World Peace Council, the Kremlin has been able to channel funds to a host of new antiwar organizations that would, in many cases, reject the financial help if they knew the source. Western intelligence experts believe that the mass movement in opposition to new NATO missiles in Europe probably was not Soviet-inspired, but they fear that the Kremlin's active measures have given the movement greater...
...Malley claimed that KGB officers have recently instructed their contacts "to devote serious attention to the antiwar movement in the United States." He pointed out that a Communist-front group, the U.S. Peace Council, was among the organizers of last June's huge peace protest in New York City, and reportedly tried to direct criticism away from the Soviet Union. One Soviet diplomat posted in Washington, who is involved in active-measures work, frequently speaks at disarmament meetings across the country. But so far, according to O'Malley, the KGB has not manipulated the American movement "significantly...