Word: kent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bells tolled on Francis Street yesterday noon as the Divinity School commemorated the first anniversary of the Kent State killings...
...Kent State killings made plain last year, the state governments have perhaps more extraordinary power over life and limb. Thirty-five state constitutions explicitly authorize the governor, at his own discretion, to call out the National Guard to suppress insurrection. They define this discretion broadly enough to cover the use of the Guard in any public disorder attended by a crisis in local law enforcement...
...martial law has a positive content with a prescribed set of rules. Martial law is just the right to use soldiers, and the right to use soldiers implies the right to use them as if in time of war. Even in a presumably civil context, the National Guard at Kent State had the legal right to engage in a limited state of war. State governors can justify any expedient tactic directly related to the quelling of disorder, and it makes no difference whether they be reactionaries or politically vulnerable green-horns. At present, the revolutionary rhetoric used by so many...
LAST MAY 4 was a day of rumors and fears. Students all over the country, already stunned by the American invasion of Cambodia, wondered and waited by radios and televisions to find out whether the rumors were true that four of us had been shot dead at Kent State...
...time in the woods. During his sophomore year at Harvard, he worked for the strike and later helped start Harvard New College, a free university. Still later, he became an officer of the Conservation Club and worked for Ecology Action. Last spring he went to lobby in Congress after Kent State and the Cambodia invasion. He came back depressed by the ineffectiveness of talking as a tool for transforming society and by his own sore need for personal transformation. No matter what he'd undertaken, he'd always yielded to apathy or frustration. But he saw no answers...