Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...third aspect of the program which I set out to accomplish in 1959 led to my fight for the sales tax, not because I wanted to make enemies with the tax, but because it was the only tax which could be enacted to bring about some state assistance with some of the great burden, since no one would then put in an income tax. It was passed...
Then, in the winter of 1966-67, students discovered their golden crowbar in the fight to prevent the use of college rankings for student deferments. A surprising number of students rallied around that flag...
Students can most effectively fight the draft by forming a draft union, Dyen says. Harvard SDS hopes to establish an effective draft union and canvass the entire senior class within the first four weeks of this semester. The union would organize students to resist the draft and provide support for their confrontations with authority, by staging demonstrations at induction centers and possibly boycotts of classes. The Harvard draft union would also be an anti-war organization, distributing films, planning demonstrations...
Members of draft boards all over the country are facing a generation with a totally different orientation from theirs toward war and in particular toward war and in particular toward this war. Some of the draftable men are committed to ending the war-machine, if possible by fighting it within its own structure; for some the fight does not go beyond a refusal to deny their own moral convictions; perhaps some, as the Cambridge draft board clerk pointed out, may later regret successfully attaining a conscientious objector classification. The individuals' motivations may differ, but it is certain that the members...
Most Republicans want to avoid a primary election fight within their own ranks. They may focus on Robert Packwood, a talented 35-year-old legislator who has quietly cultivated support among progressive Republicans over the last few years. He is considered a liberal but his views on Vietnam are ambiguous. Packwood says the United States has a legal and moral right to be in Vietnam, but condemns the Administration for not developing a long-range plan for leaving. Since he is little known and has not run a state-wide campaign before, he must hope for deep division among...