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Weather people tried to 'smash the state' by breaking windows in cut-rate department stores in Chicago. PL continued to come up with gems of analysis; they attributed the hardhat attack on the peace demonstrators as provoked by the demonstrators' support for Ho Chi Minh--who the hardhats knew to be a sell-out because he was negotiating at Paris...
...PL was the only group specifically banned from attending: the group feared that they would attempt to take over the conference. Two PL'ers showed up and were asked to leave...
Dick was a leader of the non-PL left at Harvard. That group began as the New Left caucus of SDS; became, after the SDS split, the November Action Coalition, and then last year, after Dick had left, the Radcliffe-Harvard Liberation Alliance...
Said one Harvard senior a few weeks ago: "What happened was that everyone from the upper class joined PL [Progressive Labor party] and all the middle-class kids joined NAC [heir to the old SDS New Left caucus] or became Weathermen. Now the rich kids are going out to the factories and the middle-class ones are going to become doctors and lawyers. The revolution does seem far away...
...bombing provoked a torrent of critical reactions on campus-much of it from student radicals. NAC condemned the bombing on tactical grounds, as did SDS and PL, who chanted "Mass Actions, Not Mad Bombings." Most students and Faculty were unanimous in their denunciation of the bombing, and a Young Americans for Freedom rally in protest against the bombing drew more than 200 people...