Word: hoc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hoc committee of students and faculty from Harvard and M.I.T., which has circulated a petition to "restore constitutional government and human rights" and "safeguard the lives of all political prisoners" is concerned that the junta is using Papandreou's fate as a ploy to extract aid from...
...protest leaders said they had no immediate plans for further demonstrations. They did, however, say that their organization "The ad hoc committee in Boston for Democracy in Greece" would be tied in with similar committees in New York, Chicago, and Berkeley. In the future, these groups may unite into a national committee, leaders said...
...another hill members of the "Ad Hoc Committee for a Revolutionary Contingent," a radical group, built a tower of black poles and flew Viet Congo flags along with one American Revolutionary War flag. Some of the revolutionary contingent changed into black pajamas and coolie hats to emphasize their solidarity with the fighters of the National Liberation Front...
...marchers handled themselves well, too, with the exception of the "Ad Hoc Committee for a Revolutionary Contingent," which charged down 7th Ave. instead of Madison Ave. and attacked Times Square armed services recruitment booth. After leaving Times Square, they clashed with about 100 police near the U.N. and five or six of them were badly beaten with riot sticks...
...students' presentation, prepared by an anonymous group which calls itself "the ad hoc committee," was -- according to one of its coordinators -- a "completely new approach" to the Visiting Committee. In the past, a few representatives from the now-defunct student council discussed "short-term gripes" about specific courses and professors...