Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...struggles for resources to meet human needs, therefore, must confront the new militarism of the United States nuclear industry and a military which sells more arms to developing nations than the rest of the world combined. The U.S. can no longer afford both guns and butter; we must choose between them. Foreign policy has become domestic policy. Those who propose real changes in our society, therefore, must bring these issues into every possible political arena--from the electoral campaigns and the unions to the churches and the streets. Such a movement was successful when organized against the Vietnam...
Canal Zone. All the reviews indicate that Fred Wizeman's latest documentary may be his most disturbing -- and at a time when many Americans are failing to confront the imperialistic impulses that led us deeper and deeper into Vietnam, his most timely. Under Wizeman's cold, documentary gaze, American "Zonies" who are zealously protecting our "sovereignty" over the canal appear as a pack of super-patriotic crazies -- absurd if they didn't seem all so familiar...
...half an hour and get $15 for their work." Even more amazing, according to Edward Boutonnet, who is chairman of the California Artichoke Advisory Board, are "the sightseers who stop their cars and pick our artichokes. They're affluent doctors and lawyers and people like that. You confront them when they're stealing and they get insulted. But if you stole things from their offices, they'd have you arrested. It burns...
...warpath. They surged through the graceful colonnaded streets into the vast Piazza Maggiore for a first skirmish with their avowed enemy: the Italian Communist Party (P.C.I.). As the throngs approached Bologna's huge Renaissance-style city hall, a handful of middle-aged Communist apparatchiks emerged to confront them. "We have been fighting to change things in Italy since 1944," a party militant told a bearded young demonstrator. "What other policy would you have us follow?" The student's quick answer: "A Communist policy." Said another young ultra: "You've given up fighting to change the system...
...schools. Also, Schwartz says White has all the patronage he needs. White failed by never providing the city with moral leadership. As David Smith said. "We got to 1974 with segregated schools and no public official saying it was wrong." White never risked his political standing to confront the Kerrigans and Hicks' head-on over educational reform and desegregation...