Word: main
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cars were overturned, bottles whizzed through the air, fires lighted the night for looters picking their way through the tawdry little stores along Roxbury's main street. Gangs of youths taunted firemen who responded to alarms, 50 of them false; one firefighter received a bullet in his hand for his pains. More than 30 policemen were injured, along with scores of rioters. At the height of the violence, 1,600 Boston bluecoats were sent in to saturate the five-block area. By the end of the third night, 63 people had been arrested...
Christian believes that the President suffered from overexposure during the Moyers days, and he points to various segments of Gallup polls that bear him out. Despite his familiarity with presidential thoughts and doings, Christian utters not one syllable more than the President wants him to. His main defensive weapon is simply to say that he is not going to talk about sensitive issues and then watch out for traps. Since he does not lose his temper, there are no pressroom incidents that get into the papers...
...possibly interminable war and the chance of a military conflict with the Chinese Communists. But they are unsure whether violating federal law is a suitable form of political protest, to say nothing of the heavy personal costs they might have to pay for the rest of their lives. The main contribution of this segment of Harvard dissenters has been the petition for a new form of conscientious objection...
...respond as he wishes to queries on whether the U.S. should withdraw immediately, or whether the President should be opposed in 1968 even if running against a hawkish Republican. On the other hand, radical leaders who will be helping to direct Vietnam Summer are said to believe that its main function is to plant the seeds for broad-based radical politics--something never before accomplished on a long-range basis in the United States...
...main attraction of community organizing is the chance it gives Harvard dissenters to act in what they consider a constructive manner to halt the war. The current widespread alienation from the government--and the normal politics which seems to maintain it -- has stimulated many students who were previously apathetic over public affairs to become involved...