Word: manifestoes
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...professors into the Vietnamese army for officer training. The roar came from Hué, where the draft order would have reduced the local university's faculty to four professors. Meeting in a series of open "seminars," a sort of Asiatic teach-in, 500 draft eligibles issued a fiery manifesto accusing Ky of attempting to "lead the society into a state of confusion and darkness," demanded the overthrow of the government, free elections and, for good measure, "social revolution...
...themselves the Hué intellectuals are a small voice in Viet Nam, but 14 labor leaders sat in on their seminars, and the tone of their manifesto was strangely reminiscent of Thich Tri Quang, leader of Viet Nam's militant Buddhist mobs, who by coincidence was in Hué for a rally of his own. Taking no chances, Ky softened the draft. The army would exempt intellectuals holding "important" positions, announced Defense Minister Nguyen Huu Co, and would give many others only a quick training course and return them to their desks-in uniform...
...first visits would be to Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, who could hardly be pleased by Algeria's sudden embargo on exported subversion. In fact, the Boumedienne regime was drawing fire from leftists all over the revolutionary lot. In Paris the Communist newspaper L'Humanite published a manifesto calling on Algerians to organize themselves into "clandestine cells" to "fight against the stranglers of the republic." To defend himself against leftist attacks, Boumedienne has gone out of his way to proclaim that Algeria is still "socialist" and "revolutionary." But with his nation all but bankrupted by Ben Bella...
...campaign machinery, fattened their treasury for battle, and democratized the invidious, invisible ritual by which Harold Macmillan established the 14th Earl of Home as his successor in 1963. Tory strategists, busily updating party policy on every issue from foreign policy to tax reform, will soon have an election manifesto at the ready...
While the critics lash away (and rightly so) at Simone de Beauvoir's new book, Force of Circumstance, let us instead consider her indisputably great accomplishments. The Second Sex, de Beauvoir's feminist manifesto (first published in 1949), will be remembered with love by millions of people when that longwinded autobiography is just a history graduate student's optional reading...