Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...longer-range plans for the fall elections are already underway as students preparing for the elections decide what races to concentrate on, and that effort seems likely to be the major focus of activity. "That's the quickest way to concentrate political effects." Cohen said...
...part of a larger effort to gain a foothold in Southeast Asia. Whether Nixon's gambit wil succeed in protecting Lon Nol's regime from further wearing away is still an open question. But it would be a bad mistake for the anti-war forces in this country to focus on the Cambodian intrusion as an independent phenomenon without extending their new awareness to a more thorough-going critique of American activity in Indochina. And it would be equally mistaken for them to hope merely for a speedy end to the "limited" American venture. Even after this "seven-week" venture...
...attempt to involve students in the "system," students from 15 colleges, including Yale. Princeton, Dartmouth, and Columbia, have formed a group called "Movement for a New Congress." The group's efforts will focus on participation in the electoral process...
...vote of the mass meeting, held in Lowell Lecture and Memorial Halls, came after a proposal passed by 692 to 472 "to recover the proper focus for the strike." The Ad Hoc Coalition To Save The Strike sponsored this resolution, which had the following points...
...evident lack of political focus can be partially explained by the crowd's confused itinerary for that evening. The motley collection of high school kids, street people, and students who persisted in holding the Square Friday night had begun the evening with the vague intention of burning down Shannon Hall, headquarters for Harvard ROTC. There is no evidence that they felt strongly about Shannon Half in particular indeed, most of them had little idea where it was SDS, which had originally planned a march to Shannon Hall after the rally, had canceled the march in a meeting Thursday night. Only...