Word: demande
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...students, now estimated by the school to number between 500 and 600, refuse to budge until their demand for no punishment...
...estimated illegal abortions performed in the United States each year, most women seeking them are married. Tragically, the state and national legislators are as insensitive to the need for liberalized abortion laws now as they were 30 years ago to the demand for legalized birth control...
...difficult to get a representative or quotable statement of the attitudes of the doctors associated With Cambridge City, though the atmosphere might be described as "cautious" grading into indifference. The political fate of the birth control issue of the projected East Cambridge Clinic (to meet the unsatisfied demand for medical attention) will be instructive to watch. One informed source said of the 25 potential associates, "They are universally frightened of the birth control issue." Whether this fear is one of patient reprisal in a heavily Catholic area or the prejudice of the physician is unclear...
...demand for amnesty has now become the focus of the demonstration. One of the other three demands--stopping construction on a gymnasium in Morningside Park--has been met at least in part. The other two--ending ties with the Institute for Defense Analyses and dropping punishments for an earlier demonstration--are less important and are close to resolution...
...finally, the liberal activists saw SDS in confusion after the death of Martin Luther King. A Boston rally held by SDS and other radical groups seemed purposeless and poorly timed. Above all, it was nearly all white. An SDS demand to pull all police out of the ghetto was severely criticized in the Crimson by Dr. Robert Coles, who asserted that the white radicals lacked any understanding of what was happening there. And meanwhile Afro came on strong and took nearly all the newsmaking campus activism away from them...