Word: nsa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clips taken at the 14th Congress of the United States National Student Association last August. It highlighted the speeches of impasioned liberals urging the abolition of the House Committee on Un-American Activities and of equally fervent conservatives attempting to spread their gospel in the wilderness of overwhelmingly liberal NSA...
Howard J. Phillips '62, former president of the Harvard Student Council, sparked the conservative attack with the declaration that "NSA is not representative of the opinions and desires of American college students...
After the conservative forces were resoundingly defeated in their efforts to temper the protest against the HUAC, Phillips retorted, "I think from the Conservative viewpoint the Congress was a success, because it shows the futility of working within NSA...
Representatives from 21 NSA regions attending the meeting will face a rigorous agenda, headed by discussion of whether to continue support of the Negro voter registration drive now being conducted in the South...
Mills avoids any discussion of right-wing student political activity on the (double) standard grounds that (1) it doesn't exist and (2) it is initiated from the adult conservative community. Another article, though, reports on "The Right at NSA." This well-written piece on how the little conservatives operated at Madison amusingly conveys a sense of the Big Mission and petty opportunism that YAF hopefuls revealed at the Congress. But again, the piece falls short of analytical clarity: the broader tactics are not explored, and finally it is unclear whether YAF is being accused of attempted sabotage or usurpation...