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...extent the chairman's job is what its occupant chooses to make of it, and few doubt that the Kentucky-born Crowe, 60, will choose an activist role. Colleagues know him as an able commander who exercises shrewd political and military judgment. He brings to his new post unusually broad experience, having served as commander in chief of the Allied Forces in Southern Europe from 1980 to 1983 and as commander in chief of the U.S. Pacific Command since then. Says Robert Komer, a former Under Secretary of Defense: "Crowe is a broad-gauged guy, a truly independent thinker...
There is seemingly no end to the nonfiction works on this subject. Jonathan Schell's The Fate of the Earth seized broad public attention in 1982 and opened the way to hundreds of books a year since then on arms control, arms negotiations, plans for peace, manuals on how to survive nuclear catastrophes. In the past two or three years, an entire intellectual community has been born around the Bomb, a portable Algonquin Round Table (minus the wit) made up of such people as McGeorge Bundy, George Kennan, Harold Brown, Robert McNamara and several retired military leaders, many of whom...
...power sharing, which they are not at present, it is by no means clear whether it would be acceptable to a majority of blacks. With the current wave of police actions and arrests, a familiar pattern is beginning to emerge. The United Democratic Front, founded in 1983 to organize broad-based multiracial opposition to the government, has revealed some sympathy for the outlawed and exiled African National Congress. One by one, U.D.F. leaders have been put under surveillance or detained, actions that are reminiscent of the treatment the A.N.C. suffered before it was declared illegal in 1960. Earlier this year...
...community of conscience at Harvard. On a campus where activism is as common as it is frustrating, misunderstood, and only occasionally effective, the dramatic success of the divestment campaign was no accident, and it points to what could be the emerging future of the campus activist community: targeted tactics, broad collaboration, effective public outreach, and constant, unwavering, single-minded commitment...
Second, they created a broad coalition. In hearing about the internal workings I’ve been struck by how inclusive and organic the movement was. Through its various incarnations, the community continually welcomed more people and embraced each other’s ideas. They sought out endorsements and actively advertised the diversity of their cause (see the front page of last Tuesday’s paper...