Word: protester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...simple or very private. Though the State Department had no hand in promoting the tour, Washington was nonetheless pleased by it, and hoped that it might presage an improvement in American-Cambodian relations, which have been almost nonexistent. Sihanouk broke off relations with the U.S. in 1965, as a protest against the bombing of a Cambodian village by South Vietnamese planes. The U.S., for its part, has repeatedly complained about Cambodia's complaisant provision of safe refuge for the Viet Cong...
...business continue to fire "unnecessary employees" as well as "troublemakers," regardless of an official ban on dismissing workers. About a third of the government's understaffed Archeological Service has been discharged as a measure of economy. There is no unemployment compensation and, of course, no free labor union to protest...
...recent episide of the protest against the recruiter from the Dow Chemical Company may be a miniature replica of forces at work in the United States as a whole. It is also, I would like to suggest, a situation that has a good many parallels in recent and not so recent history. For reasons that are often a matter of debate among historians, and that certainly do not stem simply from economic privation, more and more people on certain occasions have come to feel that they have legitimate grievances against a system of law and order under which they...
...regard as atrociously cruel and strategically stupid. It protects the right of Dow Chemical and similar groups to recruit students for this general purpose. To a vastly lesser extent it also protects those of us who feel outraged by this situation. In effect we are told that we may protest as much as we like--as long as our protest remains ineffective or aims at token reforms such as limiting the bombing in Vietnam to "selected targets" that have a way of increasing after every protest, or being satisfied with a civil rights movement that still leaves the overwhelming mass...
...whole have been tackled by a group representative of the whole. But it is equally important that the specific points raised by Hoffmann not be ignored. There are several suggestions of inconsistency in the University's policy toward campus recruitment; there is also disagreement here about what forms of protest should be accepted; and there are growing indications that, despite Harvard's ban on classified research, the University is more deeply involved both collectively and individually, in the war then we know...