Word: antiwar
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...honor. Only some vestige of civic duty (and whiff of profit) carried the motion in the city council by a scant 4-3 vote to invite the Republicans. The loyal opposition included the Chamber of Commerce and the Community Relations Board, who fear a seven-week encampment of antiwar protesters spanning the time from the Democratic opening on July 10 to the scheduled Republican closing...
...influence in internal-security cases. One of the Nixon Administration's chief complaints about him was that he was not sufficiently aggressive in the use of wiretaps, electronic eavesdropping and the other "dirty tricks" of the trade in cases involving campus disorders, racial unrest and leftists in the antiwar movement. Hoover's standard in such cases was protective of his institution: he hesitated to undertake any investigation that would not be supported by popular opinion...
Republican administrators in Washington have said privately that the White House is counting only on a slight response at home to the President's decision to mine the harbors of North Vietnam. But it appeared that as the week progressed, antiwar demonstrations were gaining both in number and in size...
...first time, other University groups that had been dormant since 1970 emerged to voice their dismay over U.S. policy. More than 300 library staff members signed a petition condemning Nixon's latest move; Librarians for Peace, an antiwar group begun in 1970, circulated the petition...
...there were some indications that unlike the small immediate response (there were, for example, only 150 people at Tuesday night's "mass" meeting in Sanders Theatre), another broad-based show of antiwar sentiment may be building...