Word: sds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SDS leaders insisted, to Monro's annoyance, that it was up to the membership, not to them. The conference broke up without resolving the issue...
Monro told a group of SDS representatives (more than he had expected; he had only invited Traugot) that he would be meeting with Dean Ford, Neustadt and other Institute officials to make a final decision on the Goldberg visit. What, he asked them -- as they had been asked before -- were their minimum demands...
...SDS leaders disagree. Goldberg could not have postponed his visit indefinitely, they argue. It would have been a clear sign of weakness, a giving in to pressure. He had to come; and, because SDS had not ruled out the possibility of a "disruptive" demonstration, he had to agree to the public meeting...
...before the SDS deadline, Dean Ford released a statement announcing the public meeting. "There . . . will be no arranged debate," the statement said, "but there will be an opportunity for faculty and students to question Ambassador Goldberg on all aspects of American foreign policy. Obviously, this format does not conform to the specific requests of any one student organization; but it will, I believe, satisfy widespread interest within the University...
...SDS leaders, like everyone else, read the statement in the newspapers. And they were angry. They had talked to the Institute and Dean Monro on their own initiative; they had spent most of January "bargaining in good faith." Yet no one had seen fit to let them know about the statement in advance...