Word: fight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite the passage of the Civil Rights Bill, the cities have almost nothing to go on in their fight against urban poverty and racial discrimination. Anti-poverty funds have been cut, summer work programs are looking very thin, the whole employment picture for Negroes is as bleak as ever and the same is true of new and rehabilitated housing. Ghetto schools are the same old schools...
...Harvard Faculty in offering support "as we individually can" to "those Harvard students who decide to refuse cooperation with Selective Service because they consider the war in Vietnam unjust and immoral." I can say, without qualification, that I despise the war and hate to see anyone going off to fight in it. At the same time, beyond the means suggested in Conrad Lyn's well-known book, the consequences of refusal to comply with the draft are jail or exile...
...great debate on the University's television policy seems to have ended happily for both sides. In fact, there was never much reason for a fight, Dean Ford said Wednesday, as he announced that the Administration had no substantial quarrel with the open-TV resolution approved 25-1 last month by the Student-Faculty Advisory council...
...Whisper. The war became unequivocally real for Just when in June 1966 he joined an elite unit of the 101st Airborne Division for a reconnaissance mission. His description of the ordeal contains some of the best combat narrative to come out of Viet Nam. After a daylong fight, in which the 40-man patrol was whittled down by the North Vietnamese, Just found himself trapped in a vulnerable com mand post. It was filling up fast with wounded. Suddenly, the enemy began to lob grenades at them. Suddenly, Just was seized by the realization that there...
...immediacy of our choice no longer allows us the luxury of inaction," Dion wrote in the letter. "We must either fight in this war or we must fight against...