Word: splits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hero to California conservatives for his rhadamanthine handling of student demonstrators in the past, serenely denied that M-day was being observed on his campus. But not far from his office, students planted 2,000 white crosses representing California's war dead in Viet Nam. The Moratorium caused split levels of routine and awareness. Almost everyone at the Pentagon seemed to be watching the Mets and Orioles except those in the civil-disturbance center, who were assigned to monitor the U.S. for violence. Richard Nixon spent much of the day reviewing Latin American policy, although his mind doubtless wandered...
National and local leaders of the Vietnam Moratorium Committee yesterday denied rumors of a split in the Fall anti-war movement, but confirmed their plans to stage community peace drives separate from the nation-wide March on Washington November...
...decade ago, most Western analysts thought a split between the Soviet Union and China inconceivable. Today, the analysts find the notion that Moscow and Peking will make up any time in the foreseeable future equally inconceivable. Indeed, even in agreeing to hold border talks with the Soviets, the Chinese spoke of "irreconcilable differences" with Moscow. Yet what if the inconceivable should occur once again, and Moscow and Peking were able to reach a genuine reconciliation? Among the possibilities...
...October 15 approaches, supporters of the Moratorium are becoming less and less certain of whom their allies really are. The major split - between the Student Mobilization Committee (SMC) and those organizing specifically for the Moratorium - seems to focus on charges that SMC is dominated by the Trotskyite Young Socialist Alliance...
...demonstrators then split into about six groups, which went to various offices on the fourth floor. Each group centered around a staff member of the Center Ithiel de Sola Pool, chairman of M. I. T.'s Political Science Department and early proponent of the controversial "Cambridge Project," drew the biggest crowd-about 50 in the foyer...