Word: moynahan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though many Harvard Square passersby showed brief interest in U.S. Citizens Revolt, the demonstration itself was joined by only a few auxiliary protesters. The small group that clustered around Moynahan's make-shift table, said protester Courtney Miller, was "a loose group of crazy artist-types" participating in "the soap opera of social unrest...
...Moynahan said he expected help from politically minded Harvard students, but that the biting cold apparently deterred all but the most committed activists...
...some students questioned Moynahan's creative use of funds. "There are hundreds and hundreds of people who need the money right here in Cambridge," said Graduate School of Arts and Sciences student Nigel Gould-Davies. "They should find a way to distribute it here...
...Moynahan also met adversity in a small counter-protest, as a former member of his group attacked additional signs that used the term "Japs" to criticize rising Japanese investment in America...
...times, Moynahan's use of what he called an "abbreviation" for the Japanese proved more controversial than his calls for the U.S. to leave Central America, a position to which most of the passersby appeared sympathetic...