Word: obey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...evening, being told by various big shots that the war is savage and morally repulsive. The time for moral witness is long gone. What we do need is to spend time figuring out new ways to make our feelings affect the government-to actually force an unwilling government to obey the will of the people...
...Unless companies Harvard invests in which have subsidiaries in South Africa are willing to terminate operations there, Harvard must sell its stock in them. The State Department and even Henry Ford II have admitted that American companies operating in South Africa must obey the laws there. The United Nations Economic Commission on Africa has documented the discrimination in jobs, pay, benefits, restrictions on migration to new jobs. Harvard, by way of dividends, is gaining money from this racist exploitation. The rhetoric here fits the situation...
...founder of the largest such organization became president on July, 1970, the terror has steadily mounted. This man, Col. Carlos Arana Osrio, has promised to exterminate all subversives in five months. According to the N.Y. Times: Military patrols now shoot anyone out after 11 p.m. who does not obey an order to halt. The families of 315 arrested persons have asked to see the prisoners, but the police can only account for 40, saying, "the others are not in jail." The jails are so packed that police simply take prisoners out to the suburbs, shoot them, and push them...
...needed." In the end, Flores and two other G.I. privates, Frederick H. Miller and Frank Moore, both 23, were returned to their units but refused to take up the duties assigned. They were confined in the stockade at Camp Eagle to await courts-martial on charges of failure to obey orders. The Army's apparent intention was to discourage other G.I.s from getting out of combat areas in the same fashion...
...solo crusade for a cleaner blue yonder, Guthrie routinely ordered mechanics to drain his holding tanks by hand before takeoffs. He says the process should take from three to five minutes. But Eastern told the mechanics not to obey him-"Each of our 3,700 pilots cannot make his own rules," said a company official-and flights were delayed by as much as 98 minutes until the captain got his way. The conflict of wills was resolved two weeks ago when the airline fired the veteran pilot...