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Police went after a few of the bombadiers, but they were pretty powerless against this sort of attack, all 3000 of them. They stood around about every 100 feet looking uncomfortable and humorless, but striving for that "objective" attitude which their chiefs had announced they would maintain. One officer, however, betrayed his feelings when two girls asked if they could cross in front of a part of the parade that was being held up at an intersection. "They might abuse you, but go ahead," he said...
...already powerless, why should Mao unleash what Peking radio called "mass rallies wrathfully denouncing the crimes" of Liu and vowing "to resolutely destroy him?" Best explanation: Liu is the symbol of continuing resistance to Mao's revolution throughout the party and cadre structure, which Liu himself spent 20 years building. A Red Guard leader addressing a Peking rally allowed as much, explaining that "final accounts" must be settled against Liu because "only by destroying his sinister headquarters can we ensure the recapture of the party, and political, financial and cultural power...
...establishment of a political power base in the Negro ghetto -- met with Rustin's qualified approval. "Of course, when I go to Walter Reuther," he said, "Reuther has the upper hand." This stems from the fact that the Negro has little to bargain with. In his present disorganized and powerless position, he is of necessity the junior partner in any alliance...
That is not the way things were supposed to be, and Lottman is painfully aware of it, but without the money to pay competitive wages, he feels powerless to do much. At any rate, SNCC workers have from time to time lashed out at the notion of a white-dominated newspaper for Negroes. As one SNCC staffer put it, "Man, it's just one more white man tryin' to tell me what to think." SNCC seriously discussed at one point organizing a boycott of the Courier. The idea apparently was forgotten by the time of last year's elections, when...
Were Collins' candidacy a known fact, other candidates might withdraw and enter the camps of stronger, more widely known anti-Collins candidates. But most of the lesser lights, frustrated by long, powerless years in the Council or the General Court, are unwilling to let what seems to be a golden opportunity...