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Reading period riots represent a of Oedipal rebellion," according member of the Soc Rel department. Kenneth J. Gergen, chairman of the apartment's board of tutors and , yesterday suggested that the springtime riots were the ' means of rebelling against the other-figure" of the University. "After restricted all semester, students a way to retaliate," Gergen said. pointed out that riots provide the with a symbolic means of reaching hostility which he can't excess directly against the system...
Turbulence and bloody conflict embraced the U.S. from two far-flung fronts. One was the old and ugly war in South Viet Nam 6,500 miles away; the other was a raw, new and unexpected rebellion in the Dominican Republic, 600 miles off U.S. shores (see THE HEMISPHERE). On both fronts, President Lyndon Johnson last week acted swiftly with strength of purpose...
...fighting lasted more than a decade. France sent 20,000 troops to end the rebellion?only to see half of them wiped out by yellow fever and the rest thrown into disarray. In 1804, a former slave named Jean Jacques Dessalines proclaimed Haiti a free and independent nation and became its Governor General. "To draw up the charter of our independence," he felt, "would require the skin of a white man as parchment, his skull as an inkwell, his blood as ink, and a bayonet as a pen." Dessalines died by an assassin's bullet within three years...
...award an honorary degree to Cal's President Clark Kerr. The students protested his "illiberal views over the rights of the students of the University of California to organize themselves on the campus." The Glasgow students had it all wrong. If anything, Kerr had handled the student rebellion too gingerly...
...beaten, burned, stabbed and shot at; he is now so hardened to it all that he can take a snooze in a car that is being chased by rednecks. Who is Moses' revolutionary mentor? Marx? Mao Tse-tung? No, it is Albert Camus, who preaches a form of rebellion that never loses sight of individual values. "It's important to recognize in the struggle certain humanitarian values," Moses told Warren, "to recognize that you have to struggle for people, and at the same time-if it's possible-you try to eke out some corner of love...