Word: antiwar
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Intrigued, Washington Superior Court Judge Harry Alexander spent 40 minutes discussing the issue with Stalonas, a 32-year-old Quaker who was on trial for illegally staying inside the Capitol after closing hours as part of an antiwar protest...
Americans are, of course, still as vociferous as ever in complaining about their government; the whole antiwar protest movement is an example of that tendency. In recent years, their complaints about the private sector of the economy have received a considerable boost from the rise of consumerism in the U.S. Consumer Crusader Ralph Nader has successfully taken on big targets-the auto companies, food industry, etc.-that have long seemed impervious to the complaints of individuals. The institution of the ombudsman, long familiar in Europe, has begun to crop up in the U.S. to represent the interests of beleaguered citizens...
...killing process placated dissent and the outrage felt by most students as recently as the May 1970 Cambodia invasion quietly slipped into history. Even the Harvard chapter of SDS, long noted for its opposition to the war, turned inward with its anti-Herrnstein campaign. A November 6 antiwar march drew only 5000 people from the entire Boston area: Harvard students guzzled beer at the Princeton game played on the same...
...argument led to another, and Winship threatened to fire Deitch, but relented after activist community groups that admire Deitch twice stormed the Globe's newsroom. The columnist now has a spot four times a week on the financial page. When a group of antiwar staffers wanted to buy an ad demanding Richard Nixon's impeachment, Winship balked. The result was a compromise in which the Op-Ed page one day was given over to a debate between the pro-impeachment faction and the paper's chief editorialist...
While the Globe encourages such provocative debate and has been vehemently antiwar-it printed portions of the Pentagon papers which it obtained independently-Winship has no grandiose ambitions to make the paper primarily national in its coverage or concerns. In fact, the Globe is often spotty even in covering New England, and too rarely assigns reporters out of the state. Winship wants to change that, "to turn the Globe into the best regional paper in America." Given the state of New England journalism, achieving that goal would be a major contribution...