Word: factly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Overlooked in the cheering was the fact that Peru's problem has merely been postponed. The burden of action now rests with the junta. The U.S. does not refute Peru's right to expropriate. Indeed, this would be pointless, since the government's Empresa Petrolera Fiscal is operating IPC's Talara refinery with Mexican assistance, and is ripping down Esso gas-station signs in favor of its own brand name Petroperu. Nor does the Nixon Administration quibble with the reimbursement-at $71 million-that Peru is willing to pay. But the U.S. firmly opposes the blue...
...sequence of confrontations that has now become a deplorable custom on American campuses, a small band of student rebels seized an administration building to protest university policies and to deliberately provoke a crisis. Police were then summoned to oust the intruders; moderate students, angered at both the fact of the "bust" and what they felt was police brutality, were radicalized into organizing a strike. The three-day boycott of classes was the first in the modern history of a venerable institution that prides itself on its devotion to learning and the rational resolution of differences. It was a shock?...
...prevented from abolishing it entirely by "contractual obligations" to the Government. He began his statement by challenging the rebels' sincerity: "Can anyone believe the Harvard S.D.S. demands are made seriously?" He ended it on the same note: "How can one respond to allegations which have no basis in fact...
Pusey eventually decided to use force. A major factor in his decision was the legitimate fear that the radicals might rifle the university's confidential files. Friday morning, in fact, the Boston underground newspaper Old Mole printed seven Harvard documents that had obviously been discovered by the invaders. (see box page...
...attend the nation's 2,500 colleges and universities. Fewer than 2% of those millions are destructive radicals, and only a handful of campuses have erupted so far. Still, that 2% amounts to perhaps 100,000 activists, quite enough for a sizable guerrilla war. Over the past year, in fact, disorders have leaped like firebrands from campus to campus?Berkeley, Brandeis, Chicago, Columbia and Howard, to name a few. At Duke and Wisconsin, the turmoil required the National Guard. Black militants and striking teachers closed San Francisco State College for five months, a shutdown punctuated by police raids, arson attempts...