Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Canadian recruiting program has rocketed Cornell to Ivy dominance and national prominence. The Big Red was the NCAA champion three years ago, and it will be a frequent participant at the nationals as long as Harkness recruits successfully. It isn't really in the Ivy League tradition to raid Canada, but it isn't illegal either. Holding early practice is illegal, however, and if the Ivy League is to remain true to its principles of moderate athletic emphasis Harkness must be stopped...
...beat the bewildered passengers, smashed windows and glass doors, and urinated on everything in sight. Some charged head-on into squads of policemen. The cops retaliated with nightsticks, tear gas and, in a few instances, guns. Police arrested 60 that night. Later they obtained warrants and, in a predawn raid on the Covenant United Methodist Church of neighboring Evanston, picked up 43 of the nearly 200 S.D.S. members staying there. Three demonstrators were wounded by gunshots, one of them seriously. Twenty-one policemen were hurt...
...Intimidation. As usual, the Chinese seasoned their basically conciliatory statement with a bit of bluster. "China will never be intimidated by war threats, including nuclear war threats," Peking warned. "Should a handful of war maniacs dare to raid China's strategic sites in defiance of world condemnation, that will...
...Harvard University, where a group of 15 to 20 youths staged a lightning raid on the Center for International Affairs, evicting teachers and students, smashing windows and painting slogans, before running off, chanting: "Ho Ho Ho Chi Minh, the N.L.F. is bound to win." Best guess is that the raiders were student members of the Revolutionary Youth Movement, the extremely militant Mark Rudd faction of S.D.S., on a tactical training exercise...
Positive identifications for the three warrants, however, came from pictures. Verbal reports identifying students involved in the raid were not grounds for seeking the arrests...