Word: rhodesia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...common theme: contempt for the student's position in the university, or at best, disbelief that worthwhile changes could be brought about by "unofficial means." Thus last fall, when students wanted to ask Director-designate Walter Adams some well-founded questions about his administration of University College, Rhodesia, the LSE authorities stuck to the letter of their regulations. The students had no "constitutional capacity" to raise doubts about the next Director, and their questions were dismissed as a "vicious character attack...
...been clearly made. First, student leaders are unlikely to be victimized for their views on politics and university structure; as one law lecturer said, "No disciplinary charges would ever be brought again unless approved by a student-staff committee." Second, the principle of student solidarity--with detained students in Rhodesia, with exiled students from South Africa, and in universities throughout Britain--has received new strength. Third, and most ominous for the rule of the old men, there are no longer any sacred, unquestionable aspects of the London School. "The demonstrations have changed the atmosphere completely," said one politics professor. "Everything...
...women are still trying to persuade black Africans to abandon their religious beliefs and worship instead a blond and blue-eyed Jesus-the same Jesus whom the Ku Klux Klan and other racists in the U.S. and Britain and the apartheid white minorities of South Africa and Rhodesia worship; the same Jesus in whose name Jews have been persecuted in the West for ten centuries and 6,000,000 Jews were gassed in Germany only 25 years ago. For more than three centuries, Christianity has ministered to the American Negro's self-hatred; and today, many black Africans...
...Minh, Charles de Gaulle or Ted Heath but to members of his own party. They were 60 or so dissident, left-wing Labor M.P.s who for months have been snapping at Wilson's policies. The rebels have outspokenly opposed his stands on Viet Nam (too hard), Rhodesia (too soft), the wage freeze (too tough on the working class), defense (too expensive), and possible entry into the Common Market (too great a surrender of sovereignty). If the rebels do not swing back in line, warned Wilson, he might just call new elections and bar them from running...
...nominated Theresa, the Hazen's waitress, for co-chairman, while another claimed he was affiliated with SDS through his membership in a "sister organization" -- Massachusetts Friends of Rhodesia...