Word: demo
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...marketplace. Two groups have sprung up at Williams to ridicule the Vietnik demonstrators. One, called Gurgle, plans a ten-mile drive between two taverns "to protest nothing." An other, the Student Committee for Restricted Escalated Warfare (SCREW) mimicked a protest demonstration held by the left-wing Students for a Demo cratic Society...
...whole, should do about intervention from the outside: "When, in other words, a Communist state has intervened in the internal affairs of an American state by training, directing, financing and organizing indigenous Communist elements to take control by force and violence. Are Communist states free to intervene while demo cratic states are powerless to frustrate that intervention...
Leak in the Reservoir. Last week's affair was the fourth anti-American "demo" in three months, and although there is an immense reservoir of pro-American feeling in the island nation, it could run out if taken too much for granted. The last three demonstrations were set off by tragic incidents on U.S. military bases. In November an off-duty U.S. airman, allegedly bird hunting with a .22-cal. rifle, shot and killed a 15-year-old Filipino boy scavenging for scrap metal on Clark Air Force Base. The next month, two Marine Corps sentries...
...skirted the Laurel-Langley issue thus far, fearing that any stand would give ammunition to his opponent, Nationalist Party Leader Ferdinand Marcos, 47. To date, at least, each candidate has been jockeying to appear more pro-American than the other, but in the wake of last week's demo, both agreed that there could be further trouble...
That "maneuvering of puppets" involved control of the New York Demo cratic Party and Bob Wagner's political future in a state newly charged with the presence of Freshman U.S. Senator Robert Kennedy...