Word: demanding
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...some extent, the military is also a victim of the general concern over powerlessness in the face of huge, impersonal, Kafkaesque institutions. At a time when more and more citizens are questioning the degree to which they control their own destinies, the military, with its rigid hierarchy, its demand for total obedience, and above all, its tropistic reaching-out for ever more armaments, is an obvious?and perhaps valid?target. An increasing number of officers, to be sure, are getting broad educations and display considerable political and social sensitivity. Still, the military as a whole, with its tendency toward stiffness...
Soviet Plea. There are important differences. The Soviets support the Arab demand that Israel pull back to its pre-war borders. The U.S. contends that Israel must be allowed to keep border areas that make Israel more secure. The Soviets back the Arabs in their refusal to sign a joint peace pact with Israel. The U.S. agrees with Israel that a lasting settlement is possible only if all parties sign a single document. The Soviets, for their part, make much of Arab pride. Soviet Ambassador to the U.S. Anatoly Dobrynin reportedly said: "Remember, my government is dealing with the losers...
Though he ridicules the students cruelly-and unfairly-Capp so far has never been attacked on campus. "But I do demand $1,000 more for talking at Ivy League colleges," he says, "as combat pay." He alternates gibes with patriotic pronouncements, defends the flag ("It looks better waving than burning"), and offers a simplish "solution" to the Viet Nam problem ("I say shoot back"). The S.D.S., he says, should be renamed S.W.I.N.E. for "students wildly indignant with nearly everything." He handles hostile audiences firmly: when one activist leaped up at a Kentucky campus appearance and yelled an obscenity, Capp said...
...Corporation is also engaged in an attack on the people of Cambridge by kicking them out of their homes in order to transform the city into a military and research center for imperialism. We also demand that the following egregious actions be stopped...
...protestors demand the end of ROTC an campus, no military recruitment at the university, and the end of the Overseas Program, in which professors go to Europe in cooperation with the armed forces to teach servicemen who can then receive their MA degree while in service...