Word: resister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...look" of the situation gave Thomson some difficult moments earlier this month. "I decided not to sign the CRIMSON advertisement," Thomson said, referring to a two-page Faculty Statement in support of draft resisters, "because of the March 31 speech. It struck me that it was inappropriate at a time when the government is on a 'peace' track to offer encouragement for those who are attempting to resist that government. I found that a very difficult decision to make...
LONG ago there were dreams of a summer in Chicago and all over. Tom Wicker was saying that hundreds of thousands would resist. General Hershey would not be able to get enough men, and maybe the war would end in that kind of glory. All of those thousands of college seniors and graduate students would build a strong movement for social change in this country...
...made textiles to 8.6% of domestic consumption, a level well below the 10.1% of the market that such foreign products snared last year. The Senate came within a single vote (38-37) of adding a quota on dairy imports to the same tax bill. House negotiators may well resist heavy pressure to agree to the textile quota in the Sen ate-House conference on the final form of the bill. Still, the rising strength of protectionist sentiment in Congress has brought serious threats of retaliation from a dozen countries...
...this score, the past behavior of the North Vietnamese gives little cause for American optimism. And the Chinese, who participated in the Laos talks in 1962, will probably continue to resist America's mildest efforts to bring stability at last to Indochina. Thus, any agreement on frontiers produced by peace talks would have to be backed up by some sort of international guarantee--a historically fragile device...
...Liller's favorite worlds. He calls it the key to the University. "I start from the question," Liller muses, "'What if there were on rules?'" It's a question Liller has not yet answered fully in his own mind, but he has definite ideas. "I strongly resist the encroachments of the University on the everyday life of the students," he affirms. Parietals and other rules should be as liberal as possible, although "drugs are a different matter from parietals." Liller sees his role as that of an adviser, not a policeman or father, and promises to be available...