Word: statement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...policy statement issued by Afro said, "Realistically, our chances of foreing the United States Government to stop this project are slight. We are absolutely opposed, however, to the participation of Harvard University officially, or any of the individuals involved, in this colonialist Big Brother operation...
...Afro's statement said, "Project Cambridge and its ill-fated predecessor, Project Camelot, both funded by the United States Department of Offense (sic), represent the transition in U. S. foreign policy from Imperialism to Psycho-Imperialism. They are prototype applications of social science data-gathering and model-building techniques to the Offense Department's 'global mission...
Later, the statement quoted from the Cambridge Project proposal: " 'Our urban problems will be better handled if we can teach better, reduce conflicts, and organize our efforts better.' Black people do not need the Offense Department to reduce conflicts for us; we know only too well in whose favor that will...
Senior Democrats throughout the nation began to patronize the Harrington campaign. Humphrey came, the one big gesture to the moderate center; so did Muskie and McGovern. Eugene McCarthy sent his regards, and Fred Harris appeared on election night in time to make his own victory statement. Edward Kennedy, though, unlike homestaters Brooke and Sargent, could do little to help his favorite in the race...
...RESOLUTION asking that the U. S. withdraw its troops poses greater problem than the Moratorium resolution; making a tactical recommendation on how to end the war is a more difficult and complex question than making a statement of opposition in principle to the conflict. Nevertheless, it should be plain that unilateral withdrawal is no longer a radical peace proposal and has become instead the only reasonable way to end the war quickly. All the theories which informed our intervention- "communist aggression," "the domino theory" and "containment"- have been officially abandoned, but the killing continues. Our "prestige" and our Presidents' sense...