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...Commission was established on May 4 by the Executive Committee of Columbia's Faculty to develop a chronology of the rebellion at Columbia and to determine the underlying causes. It held 21 days of hearings and heard testimony from 79 witnesses. However, members of Columbia Students for a Democratic Society and the Student Afro-American Society boycotted the hearings...
MEXICO CITY, Oct. 3--Troops hunted room to room through a huge apartment complex Thursday for snipers silenced by army fire in the most vicious battle of Mexico's City's student rebellion, which has claimed at least 40 lives since mid-July. Tanks roamed down-town streets...
BRING LARKS AND HEROES, by Thomas Keneally. The love, rebellion and death of a young soldier garrisoned at an 18th century Australian penal colony...
...most active members of the intelligentsia, I will guarantee absolute tranquillity within the country." He was given at least a partial mandate. A few months later, his men quietly rounded up some 150 to 300 intellectuals in Leningrad. A new, sinister note crept into the charges: "Conspiracy to armed rebellion." The secret police claimed to have smashed an underground terrorist network, extending to arrests of related groups in Sverdlovsk and several towns in the Ukraine...
...have heard a great deal of late about the so-called nihilism of this student movement, about our alleged love of rebellion for its own sake, about the pleasure we supposedly derive from the very act of disruption. But if that is all you see, then you have a problem of perception. Such blind condemnation can only confirm the already prevalent suspicion that somehow you can't or won't listen to what we have been trying to say--that, come what may, you won't be stirred from your business-asusual complacency. If our generation in general...