Word: hylander
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...amnesty to the student leaders imprisoned since 1968, the student left came alive. The atmosphere in university centers has noticeably changed from one of lethary and outright fear to excited planning and organizing. Opinions which were once only expressed behind locked doors are now freely offered to reporters. Richard Hyland, a former Crimson editor and now a freelance reporter, was soliciting these opinions from student leaders when he was imprisoned on charges of revolutionary activity last month...
...UNAM who organized the teacher faction which supported the students in 1968, and by Cervantes Cabeza de Vaca, one of the most charismatic student leaders. Castillo and other long experienced radicals spent two years in jail after the 1968 movement. While in Lecumberri prison (the same prison where Hyland is now staying) they greatly influenced student leaders such as Cabeza de Vaca who were also there...
Even an experienced Crimson reader might blink at Wednesday's unsigned editorial about Richard Hyland. Usually the Crimson makes some pretense of marshalling evidence to support opinion. But in this case, just after the writer notes that "of the facts in Dick's (Hyland's) case, we know nothing and do not presume to judge," he asserts that "he (Hyland) is a political prisoner...
Each sacrifice that was made, each scar, each moment of defiance, no matter how brief or insignificant it seemed, mattered. That was what Dick Hyland tried to say in his writing. It mattered because people in Vietnam and China and Czechoslovakia and South Africa who were of the same frail flesh and blood as us, and wanted the same things we did, were fighting hard every day. They faced an array of power we could only try to imagine. They fought with a courage and a belief in themselves that was distinct from anything we had ever known. They were...
...Dick Hyland is an extraordinarily sympathetic and gifted radical. It is not clear what has happened to him in Mexico City, or what will happen. Nor is it clear what we can do for a comrade far away and in some danger. One thing, certainly, is simply to remember him, speak about the kind of person he is, and the things he shared with us while he was a student here...