Word: grouped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week also produced a mixed bag of claims from people who said they had some special knowledge of the sullen defendant. A former Castro commandant, José Duarte of Miami, said he had scuffled with Sirhan a month ago in Los Angeles when he heard Sirhan tell a group of leftists: "What the U.S. needs is another Castro." In London, Journalist Jon Kimche, who is known mainly for his sensational anti-Arab diatribes, wrote in the Evening Standard that Sirhan had returned to the Middle East twice, in 1964 and 1966. The story was flatly denied...
...Movement is a new anti-Gaullist group formed by bearded ex-Gaullist Pisani, who resigned from the Cabinet over last year's successful government bid for special decree powers to deal with France's economic problems. His final break with De Gaulle came when he voted for last month's censure motion. The Movement is the freshest Centrist answer to the Gaullist/Communist dilemma, with a program of dialogue, decentralization and economic planning. Prospects: Pisani expects to win no more than five seats, then build for the future...
...form a central governing organization but to rely on spontaneous action and ad hoc committees to deal with day-today problems. They wanted to eliminate once and for all any central authority and bureaucracy that would dictate policy. A system of Soviets was set up in which each group was autonomous and every decision arrived at by consensus...
Much of the convention debate centered on proposals to ready S.D.S. for resistance to any such reaction by pulling the highly diffuse, anarchic organization together under at least regional direction. "If this group does not get together in the next two years," warned National Education Secretary Bob Pardun, "we'll be wiped out." Yet the debates dramatized the difficulty of agreement within S.D.S. on anything but broad goals. Exercising "participatory democracy" to the fullest, delegates spent hours belaboring technical points. After ten hours of discussion, all three resolutions aimed at restructuring the organization were voted down...
...institutions troubled by the student assault conceded that some goals of the protesters were valid. Speaking at the University of Pennsylvania, CBS Chairman William S. Paley, a Columbia University trustee, admitted that he "questions the soundness today of the old theory of trustees as a small, self-perpetuating group of interested laymen, many chosen for life, into whose custody the full character and conduct of the university are reposed." At his university's commencement, Columbia Historian Richard Hofstadter heartily agreed that "powers need to be reallocated, new organs of decisions and communication need to be created, greater participation...