Word: roles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...March Brown chancellor Charles H. Tillinghast disbanded a search committee composed of students, faculty and corporation members and turned the selection decision over to a committee including only corporation members. He formed a seven-member student committee to serve in an advisory role...
...Movement. Many liberals would go further and argue that the whole enterprise was basically a simple product of Hoover's obsessions, because none of the groups targeted represented a plausible threat to national security. But if one believes, as I do, that the anti-war movement played a decisive role in forcing the end of the Vietnam war by limiting American military and political options, and that the New Left potentially represented a serious movement for social change, then the basic anxieties of the FBI seem more rational...
...enormously successful in damaging the lives and careers of individual activists, perhaps the most immediately tragic aspect of the affair. Because these documents deal primarily with COINTELPRO-SWP, they do not shed any light on the organizations which did split, with unfortunate results. It's well worth speculating what role FBI agents played in the 1969 SDS split and in the numerous splits in the Panthers...
...changes his character slightly each time he changes faces. First as a self-satisfied military officer, then as cowardly tyrant, and finally as a simpering, giggling despot who knows he has crippled the souls of his people, Wells is a perfect villain. David Reiffel is equally good in his role as the not-quite-sane mayor, who switches mental illnesses to suit the moment. Charles Weinstein, as the mayor's conniving son who gives up his fiancee to the dragon in return for a position as private secretary, may overdo his sliminess somewhat; but fairy tales deal in black...
...ACSR stopped to investigate the South African situation, it would have discovered that the leaders of South African black organizations have consistently called for a trade boycott. Surely South African blacks can judge for themselves whether the role of U.S. corporations aids or harms them in their struggle to end repression...