Word: antiwar
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...only is the military standing tall again, it is staging a remarkable comeback in the quantity and quality of the recruits it is attracting. Recruiters, once denounced by antiwar students as "baby killers" and barred from campuses, are welcomed even at elite universities. ROTC programs that faltered during the Viet Nam era, when protesters were fire bombing their headquarters, are flourishing again. The military academies are enjoying a steady increase in applications. Says Colonel Manley Rogers, director of admissions for the U.S. Military Academy at West Point: "If someone wishes to complete his basic training by Christmas...
...Franco-Prussian War, which he decisively won. Governmental forgery goes on, in many guises and places. The practices of the Soviet Union's KGB have made the term disinformation familiar to millions. During the late 1960s, the FBI'S attempts to sow dissent among radical and antiwar groups in the U.S. involved some flat-out fakery...
...April 21, 1972: "Subject's activities being closely followed, and any information developed indicating violation of federal laws will be immediately furnished to pertinent agencies in an effort to neutralize any disruptive activities of the subject." The bureau even stuffed into its dossier lyrics from Lennon's antiwar songs...
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...