Word: clashed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Panthers and Weathermen faction of S.D.S. were moving dynamite and demolition experts into the college town, one federal official warned beforehand that there would likely be "racial violence, widespread destruction and even assassination at New Haven." An explosion did shatter glass in a Yale building, and a mild clash broke out between demonstrators and local police, backed by National Guardsmen. But Yale did not prove to be the holocaust that many had feared. Some Panthers even joined Yale students to intercede between bottle throwers and cops wielding tear gas. All in all, Yale's concerned but overwhelmingly nonradical students...
...gets credit for doing it without lowering graduation standards in the process. Brewster has also long held views that Agnew could applaud, such as his concern that "physical disruption and intimidation from the New Left" pose a "frontal challenge" to universities, and that "reason must be honored above the clash of crude and noisy enthusiasms and antipathies." He has argued that "the teacher who holds no convictions is a neuter," but "the teacher who sees his classroom as an opportunity for missionary indoctrination is an outrage...
...They have too many armaments, like helicopters and tanks that shoot through whole rows of buildings. The same techniques learned in Vietnam are brought back to this country, ready for use against the local insurgents. But you are going to have sporadic incidents of violence. You'll see more clashes like the ones between the Black Panthers and the police in Chicago. It won't always be initiated by the police. You will see a sudden and very quick clash between the black community and the police...
...university lacked was a cause, a political issue that would set off the seemingly inevitable clash between the radicals and the administration. In September, 1968, that issue appeared: the status of the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC). the university's most obvious link to the military establishment...
...Washington University in St. Louis last month, an early-morning clash between police and anti-ROTC demonstrators helped to prompt what may be the nation's first federal-grand-jury investigation of a campus protest. The jury, which last week heard testimony from faculty, students and newsmen, is trying to determine whether the protesters violated the civil rights of ROTC students. The jurors will also consider whether a fire that leveled the university's small Army ROTC building in February violated a federal law that protects national defense installations...