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...when we ourselves would get together, only for one of the more self-styled radicals in the group to proclaim, "At least, there's nothing chic about...
...lease. But the tenants-some students, some "street people" who come and go but normally number around 30-soon changed their minds about both items. From there, it was only a hop, skip and a "people's tribunal" to their decision to pay no rent at all and proclaim that, for Bandy and his property at least, the revolution was here. Bandy is poorly cast as Miffland's capitalist pig. He publicly criticized Mayor William Dyke in May 1969, when police broke up an unauthorized block party, touching off a three-day riot. Nevertheless, confronted by squatters...
...undoubtedly far too soon to proclaim the end of the urban guerrillas in the U.S. Sooner or later, however, the terrorists themselves may pay closer heed to a lesson that their hero Mao Tse-tung could have taught them. "Guerrilla warfare must fail," Mao wrote, "if its political objectives do not coincide with the aspirations of the people and their sympathy, cooperation and assistance cannot be gained...
Those University of Hartford students who sat through Thurmond's speech were probably a little awed by the transformation of their cafeteria. When they heard a dixiecrat proclaim that "Next to John C. Calhoun, Agnew's the best Vice-President the country's ever had" in their eastern college eating-place, it must have been discomforting. When a crowd of student-conservatives greeted the announcement with a standing ovation and drawled YAAAHOOOS, it was unquestionably sobering...
...mixed chorus of reverberating Buddhist gongs and an authoritative 101-gun artillery salute, one of the oldest monarchies on earth was pronounced dead last week. In ceremonies before a joint session of the Cambodian Parliament, the President of Cambodia's National Assembly declared: "I, In Tam, officially proclaim the Khmer republic. Our country is indivisible." The fabled Khmer empire-begun in 802, conqueror of much of Southeast Asia a millennium ago, creator of the glories of Angkor Wat-was no more. In the newly named Place de la République near the former Royal Palace, Premier...