Word: pro-war
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...nature as an academic community." It lists, among others, "freedom from personal force and violence" (the kind of violence and force involving carrying deans out of their offices, not the kind involving nightsticks), and "freedom of movement" (student protesters sat in front of the cars belonging to various pro-war administration officials who visited campus, forcing them to debate if they wished to leave). The resolution ends with declarations of "mutual respect and trust," and appeals to respect "for the dignity of others." In practice, the Commitee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR) turned out to be a collection of reactionary...
...politically) juvenile as everybody else" in his class, he adds. He is not, he says now, embarrassed about his enthusiastic support of the Republican. Like many of his classmates Fallows soon was swept up by the anti-war movement. He recalls that he began to doubt the right-wing, pro-war legacy of his upbringing during his freshman year, when Sen Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.) journeyed to Boston to defend the American Vietnam policy. "I went and listened to it perfectly confident that he would have reasons to rebut all the criticism of the war, and he didn...
...American life, but they want no further part of it." Said Republican Garner Shriver of Kansas: "The feeling is that we have made a considerable contribution to Cambodia and South Viet Nam and that we've done enough." Added Democrat Joseph Gaydos, whose district encompasses the formerly pro-war steel towns of western Pennsylvania: "In retrospect, most people realize that regardless of how much we might have spent in lives or dollars, we couldn't have changed the outcome...
...early March 1971, Cox almost single-handedly brought a non-violent end to a nine-day occupation by militant women of a vacant building at 888 Memorial Drive. Two weeks later, Cox earned notoriety among Harvard radicals for his part in the controversy surrounding the pro-war "counter teach...
...case against direct action went something like this: There are hundreds of pro-war congressmen who must be defeated. Many of them hold vulnerable seats and can be defeated with strong campaigns. All that demonstrating will do is create a backlash reaction in the electorate. The issue will change from the U.S.'s role in Southeast Asia to whether student demonstrators are threatening the fabric of American society. Faced with the prospect of defending sometimes violent demonstrators, many liberals will either defend them and go down to defeat, or swing to the right. The only way to bring the war...