Word: haven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brandt government as evidence of healthy tendencies in West Germany. Most important, without posing any preconditions, the communique gave the green light for Eastern Europe to enter into bilateral trade and diplomatic relations with the country that ever since World War II has been castigated as the haven of unrepentant Nazis...
...hundred Panthers jailed as political prisoners in the past two years. Twenty-one Panthers in New York with 82.000.000 bail. Eight months in jail without charges or trial. Messiah says there'll be another 82.000.000 in the next two weeks. Pregnant black women in jail in New Haven, who will be forced to have their babies in jail. A white jail doctor reaching up into them for their babies. Then their babies will be taken away because Panthers are unfit mothers...
...incident which happened to me during my visit to New Haven to attend the Yale-Harvard game on November 22 has convinced me that the country's incipient mood of fascism has arrived in the Ivy League. That day was so different from the gentleness of the multitudes of persons who attended the Moratorium in Washington on November 15 as to leave no doubt that those Americans who back the Administration's policies are far from "silent...
...date got the license number of the car and we tried to get the cop directing traffic to come, but he would not leave his post. We went to the West Haven police station to report the incident. The officers were very sympathetic ("I'm sure they didn't go to Yale; probably didn't even go to high school"). A teletype to Hartford revealed that the car was registered in the name of an auto-leasing agency, which was closed. We returned to New York with the knowledge that the perpetrators of this deed would probably never be caught...
...should try, really try, to change our personal patterns of behavior. Such efforts will not take as much time as organized projects, but they will be just as difficult. Even smiling seems a terrific task at this time of year. How about greeting people whom we know but haven't greeted in months? Writing to people we haven't written to in years? Doing little favors for no reason at all? Finding people who deserve our thanks, and saying "Thank you," and meaning...