Word: guerilla
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...Harvard owned about $20 million of stock in Gulf Oil, a company that was helping the Portuguese colonial regime in Angola beat back the growing threat of the black guerilla movement. After eight months of ineffectual protests and calls for Harvard's divestiture of stock in the company, a small group of black students occupied Mass Hall, supporters demonstrated for several days in the Yard and students called a general University strike. The Corporation refused to give in to the pressure, and the Mass Hall occupiers left peacefully after six days. After the sit-in, Bok sent...
...want this to break down to guerilla warfare between the Houses," he said...
...thousands of members of the opposition--made Iran a one-party state, removing all traces of democratic government. Like every shah before him, the current Shah claims to experience visions granting him absolute authority over his people, and he has not permitted any challenge to that divine right. Guerilla activity has intensified in the last seven years, and the Shah's regime has become more and more brutal in its efforts to quiet the opposition...
...know about Patricia Hearst's closet sex life and continual menstrual cycle. (The California papers followed this latter issue quite closely and the ever-staid New York Times devoted several columns in its Sunday magazine to the constant period, nail polish and diet of this heiress-turned-urban-guerilla-turned-heiress-again...
...Dynamic Cloud Modeling" set the pulse racing. Yet there are many striking and subtly disconcerting papers tacked away in the stacks. For example, how did Rand researchers get the extensive bibliographical data they included in a profile done in the late '60s of an elite six-man Vietcong guerilla unit fighting in the Mekong Delta? The report doesn't say, but it does outline each man's background, psyche and personal beliefs. The extent of the researchers' knowledge is striking. Their ability to gather so much information on even presumably hostile people is disturbing...