Word: movement
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COLLEGE CAMPUSES have played a major role in the anti-apartheid movement that has burgeoned in this country in the last three years. But even with widespread support the numbers of students actually involved in demonstrations and protests--in giving of their time and themselves to the issues of the day--have been relatively few. That is even more the case with the anti-nuclear movement and especially the anti-war movement that has grown as the Reagan Administration has stepped up its not-so-cold war in Central America...
...crowd last week in Washington was older, with heavy representation from the church groups that have been the backbone of the peace movement in recent years. But there were also groups among the crowd that it was pleasantly surprising to see, faces that in the past hardly were noticeable at anti-war rallies...
Four years ago Jesse Jackson was the Black candidate, the Central America movement was a cause for the disenchanted white middle-class, few people were interested in South Africa and the anti-nuclear movement seemed a trendy fad. Now the various victims of Reagan's policies are comming to see their common cause. If no media politicians besides Jesse Jackson recognize the common enemy and our common future, more power...
...national liberation.' The effective response lies neither in the quest for conventional military victory nor in the esoteric doctrines and gimmicks of counter-insurgency warfare. It is instead forced-draft urbanization and modernization which rapidly brings the country in question out of the phase in which a rural revolutionary movement can hope to generate sufficient strength to come to power...
...exits that otherwise would have been open to the South African speaker, the students whom Professor Kennedy praises commited an act of force that conflicts with the spirit of peaceful, civil disobedience and with Harvard's stated standards of conduct, which emphasize "freedom from personal force...and freedom of movement...