Word: hungers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hunger strike is an irrational act," Hirsch said. "It doesn't do anything but make people hungry. But you can't say something unless you give up something. And no one gives up anything at Harvard," he added...
...participation by the rank and file (TIME, Dec. 6, 1971). Those reforms have helped make his candidacy; state and local party satraps, never pro-McGovern, now have a diminished role in picking the 1972 nominee. In the Senate, though he has taken a major role in trying to end hunger in the U.S., he remains best known for a series of unsuccessful resolutions and amendments, co-sponsored by Republican Mark Hatfield of Oregon, that would set a date for ending the U.S. presence in Viet Nam. "This chamber reeks of blood," he bitterly told his colleagues just before the Senate...
...greeted not with riots but with jeers. Most Harvard students disapproved when 150 demonstrators once again "trashed" the Center for International Affairs, then scarcely reacted when President Bok promised that the university would help prosecute the vandals. (Conversely, when 40 black students staged a sit-in and hunger strike in Bok's office, he simply moved to another office.) Almost everywhere, classes were only lightly boycotted, mass meetings and marches only lightly attended...
PALC and Afro did not immediately respond to Steiner's letter, but showed no sign of preparing to leave. The building's occupants are in the second day of an indefinite hunger strike. According to a PALC-Afro statement released yesterday, the purpose of the hunger strike is "to increase and demonstrate their commitment to bringing about Harvard's divestiture of its Gulf Stock." Their diet consists solely of vitamins and liquids...
...Anti-Defamation Leagues of Philadelphia and Newark, which had sponsored the mail-in, were incensed. Said New Jersey League Official Robert Kohler: "It is the sin of waste in the face of hunger. It was wanton, cynical destruction of good food." Kohler and others claimed that many of the packages were marked with return addresses, but postal authorities insisted that only a handful were thus labeled, and that anyway, they feared a contamination hazard. Undeterred, the A.D.L. protesters intend to keep up their mail-a-matzo pressure on the Soviets...