Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They all considered the Corporation's decision on divestiture an unacceptable policy, and they all cared enough to do something about it, despite their lack of formal leadership. By the start of the working day, the four flights of stairs to U-Hall were entirely filled with protesters. Another 250 people picketed the building, forming a human wall around...
...this crucial point that the United Front leadership faltered. To sustain the incredible momentum from three hours of marching and chanting the demonstrators needed confidence and a means of channeling that energy. In hesitating, the leadership committed an error--but one that ultimately proved instructive...
...this particular view, the confrontation is less ideological than generational, since many of the dissidents have no quarrel with the Eurocommunist policies of the leadership. But there is a difference in viewpoint between the old guard, like Carrillo, aging Party President Dolores ("La Pasionaria") Ibarruri and other seasoned apparatchiks, many of whom spent the Franco years in exile, and a younger group that remained at home. But how far can internal democracy go, particularly in a Communist party? As one Western analyst puts it, "Carrillo clearly wants it-up to a point. But can he then keep...
...safely meet national, or international, energy needs. El Camino owners still fly down the pikes doing CB 70 flashing a chrome-framed message from their jacked-up bumpers: I hope all of you ecological bastards freeze to death in the dark. A second reason is the lack of effective leadership--field representatives from national Sun Day headquarters did not begin regional organizing until just six weeks...
...Dunn, coordinator for the Paulist Leadership and Renewal Project who also walked as a clown, said her costume was "a way of reaching people you ordinarily can't reach," including isolated elderly people who sit and watch walkers on Commonwealth Avenue...