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...counter the guerrilla terror, governments everywhere will have to pay far closer attention to security-not only on airliners, as they are learning to do, but at almost any public event or occasion that terrorists could disrupt, as they did the Olympics. Perhaps the ultimate significance of last week's horror in Munich is that the historic, bloody conflict between the Israelis and Arabs has now been exported from the Middle East to the rest of the world, first to Western Europe, and maybe eventually even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRORISM: Horror and Death at the Olympics | 9/18/1972 | See Source »

Kazen maintained that her course dealt with the entire ethnic experience and not only with Chicanos and Boricuas. The students rejected this interpretation and threatened to disrupt her class...

Author: By Daniel Swanson, | Title: Radicals Counter Traditional Orientation | 9/18/1972 | See Source »

...most people, those credentials and invitations were well out of reach. In Flamingo Park, 4500 uninvited and unaccredited non-delegates--mostly young--plotted to disrupt and embarrass the Republicans. They sought to confront President Nixon once more over his policies of Vietnamization negotiated settlement and bombing in Vietnam...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: A Republican Roadshow Swamps Miami | 9/1/1972 | See Source »

...prestigious luminaries--signed a statement which appeared as an advertisement in The Crimson supporting Herrnstein's right to teach his theories and denouncing the SDS protests. The statement termed the protests "brutish," and accused SDS of attacking Herrnstein personally through "false and offensive placards, leaflets, picketing and threats to disrupt his classes...

Author: By Peter Shapiro, | Title: A Spring of Rekindled Activism | 9/1/1972 | See Source »

...structures that they're almost putting in our hands, so in some sense, I think it's a plea for a shift of power toward technocratic international managers. Now the only thing managerial people will respect is power blocs, like the ability of the Third World to disrupt. The managers will pay attention only to violence, which is why the Archie Bunkers of the world were fed up with the Kennedy-liberal Democrats, who would eliminate the white working class and listen only to the blacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Interview: The Mechanists and the Mystics | 8/21/1972 | See Source »

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