Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During the debate a wedge of paratroopers and Marshals was forming. One of the SDS announcers asked that a military spokesman talk with one of the demonstration leaders in order to avoid further casualties. After several attempts, it became clear that the military was not going to negotiate. The wedge started moving through the center of the crowd, hacking its way through the demonstrators and splitting them in half. A girl was slapped on the side of the head with a rifle and all of a sudden coke bottles, beer cans, pieces of wood, and stones flew into the phalanx...
...Governing Boards is in reality a great deal sounder than some people appear to believe, judging from various assertions made in recent months. Here my own experience, though obviously limited, is not irrelevant. Both the Corporation and the Overseers have allowed me to be heard, as a spokesman for you, the Faculty, more frequently and more sympathetically than many of you, I suspect, are likely to have realized...
Miss Stevens, an NAC spokesman, said that except for the major march the NMC has permits for all its planned events including the March Against Death...
...will not compromise on this political symbol," said Christine Stevens, another NMC spokesman...
...That's absurd," said Ted Johnson, an NMC spokesman. "We haven't heard of any plans for violence and we have better contacts on campuses than the FBI." He accused the department of waging a "scare campaign" to discourage protestors from coming to Washington...