Word: antiwar
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...family of antiwar organizations in Cambridge has produced a new member--the New England Coalition to Free Saigon's Political Prisoners...
Many of the most graphic accounts of torture go back to pre-ceasefire days. But there are more than enough reports of torture since the ceasefire--stories like that of a 14-year old girl, arrested for having the sheet music for four antiwar songs, who says police stripped her, put sandbags across her body, beat her until she vomited blood, and held her prisoner for six months without ever filing charges--to indicate that prison conditions haven't changed very much. It is not entirely clear how much torture, or how much of Thieu's police and prisons...
...Student antiwar protests were mild at Brown in 1969 and afterwards, and the settlement of the ROTC issue fit with the relatively peaceful tone of the campus. A student-faculty-corporation committee studied Brown's ROTC program, reached a negative verdict in 1972, and submitted its report to the faculty. The faculty then affirmed the decision, restating and updating their 1969 guidelines...
During the summer of 1968, Griffin said, when antiwar sentiment was more intense, the question became whether or not ROTC belonged on campus at all. "The question translated itself into whether students could drop the ROTC courses from their schedules in the same way they did regular Yale courses," Griffin said...
...Amid antiwar occupations of buildings at the college, Princeton's board of trustees voted in 1972 to reinstate the Army's program on a limited basis--without credit or funds...