Word: cfia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Five days after the "probable cause" hearing, the three Weathermen will stand trial in Cambridge's Third District Court on charges growing out of the September 25 CFIA disruption. The Court can decide on their guilt or innocence and, if necessary, sentence them...
Mann is wanted on seven counts for the CFIA disruption - three of assault and battery, two of disturbing the peace, one of defacing a school building, and one of disturbing a school assembly. Olson is wanted on two counts of assault and battery and one of disturbing the peace, and Nies on one count of disturbing the peace...
...through the literature and find an example of mindless, gastric-juice romanticism. I couldn't have found a better example. If I quoted it to my class, the students would think I'd made it up. It's the kind of piece-along with the accompanying report on the CFIA-that one is ordinarily inclined to ignore, if only out of consideration for the author. Yet I don't think any of us here at Harvard can afford to ignore this kind of intellectual and moral atrocity in these times. Too much is at stake, and too many are ready...
...Hyland is nothing less than candid. He spells out the strategy for us. "The Weatherman attack on the CFIA," he writes, "made the subsequent Guided Tour much more palatable." On that occasion, rudeness and insolence toward teachers, contemptuous flouting of the rights of fellow students, disorderly and potentially dangerous behavior-all things that would have been severely and properly punished-suddenly became acceptable. The victims of this abuse found solace in the thought that it could have been worse; and they were joined in this by their colleagues, who found further comfort in the hope or assumption that this kind...
...distinction between property and persons: bomb buildings only after 5, he writes, when the people who work there are more likely to have gone home. Similarly, many students and faculty have comforted themselves with the thought that the Harvard-Radcliffe SDS have condemned the Weatherman assault on the CFIA an act of violence against working people. Yet there is nothing in the morality of Mr. Hyland or the local SDS that assures such thoughtful discrimination in the future. When the time is right-when, to use Mr. Hyland's jargon, a "combination of possibilities and a progressive view of history...