Word: manifestoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Congressman of the title story is an honorable man. He makes a sound political decision, refusing to endorse an antiwar manifesto, on grounds that it won't do any good and will only irritate his constituents. Then he discovers, when a colleague with surer instincts successfully champions the antiwar cause, that he has put a lid on his career...
...FINDS SOMETIMES with young people, those who have read the Communist Manifesto, or those who have merely carried it under their arms for a long time, they think that they have assimilated it and then they lecture us and demand from us what they call a pure Marxist attitude and are quick to criticize. And to be young and not to be a revolutionary is a contradiction--but to go forward as your life changes and to stay a revolutionary in a bourgeois society--it is difficult...
...personal example: I was the college leader of a group called Forward; it was the most vigorous group on the Left. One day it was proposed that the group Forward sign a manifesto--I am speaking of the year 1931--calling for the creation in Chile of soviets of workers, peasants, soldiers and students. I said then it was madness, that there was not any possibility, that this was a great mistake and that I didn't want, as a student, to sign something that tomorrow, as a professional, I could not accept...
...case. Testifying before a Senate appropriations subcommittee on their dealings with the CIA, Haldeman and Ehrlichman proved short on memory but very long on devotion to national security as a justification for their actions-clearly taking their cue from the President's own curious and unsettling manifesto of the week before...
...revolutionaries had other demands as well. They wanted their Marxist-lining manifesto published on the front pages of leading dailies throughout Mexico. They specified a time for Cuba's representative in Mexico to appear on national television and report the safe arrival in Havana of the 30 compañeros. They also warned that there was to be no army or police mobilization in the Guadalajara area while negotiations were going...