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Students at the rally watched a guerilla theater performance satirizing Bok's views on moral considerations in appointments and listened to speakers who criticized Harberger's role as an adviser to the Chilean military junta...
...early and mid-'60s saw the society's heyday; Life,, in its "Washington Report," said the society was engaged in "a massive shift from a semi-clandestine political guerilla force to a quasi-respectable pressure group," devoted mostly to withdrawal from the U.N., exposure of the civil rights "fraud," and the impeachment of Chief Justice Earl Warren. Then Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy '48 placed the group "in the area of being humorous." But Sen. Barry Goldwater (RAriz.), in a comment that would haunt him in his presidential bid, said, "I am impressed by the people...
...crowd: "If this country is to be saved the disaster of a poisonous and rancorous war...then it is you, the moderate, the decent, the liberal young people who all by yourselves will have initiate the political movement against this kind of foreign policy. You must engage in psychological guerilla warfare against your parents and friends. You must make it too taxing, too costly for them to support this war or to be apathetic towards it." Well, it cost us a lot too. Many had to leave board and the FBI, taking low-profile jobs or dealing drugs, to avoid...
...bring about a peaceful settlement," the exiled Dalai Lama said in his first press conference in 1959. He added that he hoped to help the continuing struggle in Tibet "by means of peaceful solutions rather than military force." Nevertheless, Chinese brutality drove some Tibetans into the mountains to organize guerilla resistance. Their efforts have been futile. Today an occupation army of 300,000 enforces Chinese dictates. Dissentors are publicly executed. Monks who refuse to defrock are interred in labor camps. Between 5000 and 6000 monasteries have been destroyed...
LONDON--In a major concession, guerilla leaders at the Zimbabwe Rhodesia peace talks agreed to British demands giving the white minority initially 20 per cent of the seats in a new Parliament...