Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Speaking about the planned SDS demonstration against the Brooks Committee, Cheyney C. Ryan 69, co-chairman of SDS, said the action was planned to "expose the fact that the Ford Corporation has set up this Faculty committee to approve the project, and to put forward our demand that Cambridge Project should be abolished...
...letter presented to the subcommittee last Tuesday, SDS accused the group of "holding closed hearings precisely to prevent people from seeing the vicious purposes to which the Project will be put." The letter ended with a "demand that [its] meetings be open and announced beforehand...
...Nixon Administration recognizes that the housing problem is fanning popular discontent about inflation. Moreover, rising pressures in the housing market may well aggravate tension in the ghettos. Rent strikes, led by predominantly Negro tenant unions, have occurred recently in St. Louis, Los Angeles and other cities. The strikers demand better living conditions, lower rents-or both. In Milwaukee, 14 couples and their 70 children not long ago took up unauthorized residence in an abandoned Army disciplinary barracks. The squatters have dubbed the place "Fort Homeless...
...government influence by refusing U.S. government support for its advisory groups and recruiting half its advisors abroad. Whatever the limitations to its advice, they do not stem from particular dogmas nor from solicitude for U.S. interests. In fact, the services of the Harvard Advisory Service are in demand from a variety of governments largely because it is known to be unaffected by special interests or viewpoints...
About 50 members of SDS and the November Action Committee peacefully confronted Dean May in University Hall yesterday with a demand that Harvard stop alleged "political repression...