Word: enlisting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Center a few weeks ago and ran into a crowd of Harvard students protesting the University's Gulf investment, chanting to the effect that "we must hold up the blood-stained banner 'til we die." She asked, "If I were to set up a booth offering a chance to enlist in the Angolese rebel army, how many do you suppose would sign up?" This is somewhat irrelevant, as is black Professor Martin Kilson's insistence that black students should give up their scholarships before demanding action from Harvard which might threaten its investment return. Nevertheless, the connection between such protests...
...opportunity to share in America's modern industrial revolution is one of the major enticements that Nixon will offer. It fits well into his general strategy, which is to seek to enlist the Soviets in undertakings of mutual benefit, so that each side will have a stake in maintaining good relations. As Kissinger put it after his return from his secret trip to Moscow: "We are on the verge of not just success in this or that negotiation, but of what could be a new relationship of benefit to all mankind, a relationship in which on both sides, whenever...
...also once said that McGovern was too colorless a man to enlist the grass roots support necessary to make him a force at the Democratic National Convention. But last week McGovern continued to show surprising organizational strength as his enthusiastic, and mainly youthful, supporters dominated enough party caucuses in Idaho to win 45% of the district delegates, who will select the state's delegation to the National convention. Edmund Muskie got only 17.8% and Hubert Humphrey 5%. McGovern did almost as well in similar caucuses in Vermont, neighboring Muskie's Maine. He appeared to have won about...
Thank You Notes. From a gas station on the highway between Daytona Beach and Jacksonville, Howell called a locally influential Democrat in Bunnell, Fla., and tried to enlist her. She demurred, but eventually consented to give Howell her list of the most important Democrats in Flagler County...
...roots of the problems of blacks in America and throughout the Third World. Although his famous Saturday morning meetings at Breadbasket ran on his personal electricity and drew much of their appeal from his "I am Somebody" exhortations, their real goal was to sensitize blacks to economic issues and enlist foot-soldiers for the economic wars of attrition Jackson successfully waged against Red Rooster chain stores and other large commercial vipers in Chicago's black community...