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...bowl of alphabet soup. The Harvard Undergraduate Council (HUC), Harvard-Radcliffe Policy Committee (HRPC), Students Faculty Advisory Council (SFAC), and Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS), which still lingers, formed the new student bureaucracy. Ten years ago, the Committee on the Organization of the Faculty--formed after a Paine Hall sit-in protesting Faculty unresponsiveness to students' needs--established the familiar Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) and Committee on Undergraduate Education...
...rally, organized by Musicians United for Safe Energy (MUSE), was the largest so far of a series of antinuclear protests nationwide. At least 20 demonstrations are scheduled in the next few weeks, from picketing at a proposed nuclear waste-dumping site near Carlsbad, N. Mex., to a planned sit-in at the site of a nuclear power plant being built in Seabrook, N.H. But for Fonda, 41, and Hayden, 38, the New York City rally was the launching pad for another crusade: their drive to publicize Hayden's anti-Big Business Campaign for Economic Democracy...
...prevent violence, 1,000 demonstrators first ransacked and then occupied the headquarters of the Marxist Fedayan-e Khalq (People's Sacrifice guerrillas). Khomeini's supporters were prevented from occupying the offices of another leftist group, the Mujahedin-e Khalq (People's Crusaders), only by a sit-in staged by young Mujahedin supporters declaring, "You will first have to walk over our dead bodies...
...these tensions grew, the prelude to the occupation of University Hall came in the form of a sit-in at Paine Hall in December 1968. One hundred SDS sympathisizers refused to move from the building, forcing the cancellation of a special Faculty meeting scheduled to discuss ROTC. The Paine Hall incident had a fairly peaceful ending--the students handed in their bursar cards after the meeting was cancelled and left the building. But the protest set in motion the faculty revolution...
...began 16 years ago in the grim mining town of Chernogorsk after the government seized children from supposedly "unfit" Pentecostal parents and sent them to be reared by state agencies. As a result, five of the Vashchenkos, attempting to leave the Soviet Union, joined a much publicized U.S. embassy sit-in. After trying to enter the embassy again in 1968, two members of the family were sentenced to three years in a labor camp...