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...anti-war demonstrators returning from a Boston rally into an attack on the CFIA--a move which made no political sense. Who knows what they will be up to tonight? Also, the Ford demo could bring a lot of radical activists out of retirement and back into the fray. A former SDS leader who has been out of political organizing in Cambridge for the last three years, has realigned and is now making a comeback as the New America Movement (NAM) coordinator of the event...
...split will do little good for the Big Red, so the squad really has its work cut out for it. Leading the team into the fray is center Dave Peace, the leading point getter with 28. Bob Murray and Doug Marrett are the leading goal scorers with ten apiece...
...President Michael McGahey, a Scottish union militant and a Communist, told a rally that if troops were used, "I would appeal to them to assist the miners." Heath seized on the statement as evidence that McGahey was trying to bring down his government. The Labor Party leaped into the fray with a statement repudiating "any attempt by Communists or others to use the miners as a political battering ram." Then, to a burst of cheers from Labor benches in Parliament, Opposition Leader Harold Wilson declared that "the extremists in the situation are the vice president of the N.U.M. [McGahey...
...hope students will not react to Watergate by withdrawing, but rather by plunging vigorously into the fray," he said. "After all, politicians are not all crooks...
Despite the army's recent reputation for staying out of politics, Chile's history contains numerous examples of military meddling. Ever since it gained its independence from Spain in 1818, the country has been periodically racked by economic strife and class warfare, with the military entering the fray on one side or the other. In 1891, civil war broke out when part of the armed forces sided with a progressive President, Jose Manuel Balmaceda (who committed suicide when he lost), and part with a Congress determined to block his reforms. Allende frequently drew parallels between Balmaceda...