Word: stops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the 15-nation North Atlantic Treaty Organization was formed 18 years ago, there was no question about its need or its purpose. That was to stop an expanding Communist empire from taking over Western Europe. As NATO inaugurated its new $8,000,000 headquarters in Brussels last week, the situation was entirely different. "Today," said Belgian Diplomat Jean-Paul van Bellinghen, "our only enemies are among us-those who are not ready to sacrifice a part of their independence to cooperate in a common work...
...over three tiers of seated demonstrators but were then met by rows of students standing, with arms linked. A spokesman for the demonstrators, Michael S. Ansara '68, told Leavitt he could leave only after he signed a yellow sheet of paper bearing the hand-scrawled pledge: "I agree to stop interviewing on the Harvard campus and not to return for that purpose...
...also a symbol--of the frustration of an idealistic and sizable group of students who feel that somehow the war must be ended. For two years they have talked, and they have picketed, but the war goes on. To students who feel intensely that the killing must stop, continued eloquence is no excuse for inaction. They have a right and a duty to indicate to their fellow students and their foes the strength of their opposition to the war. They have a right and a duty to raise the issue wherever and whenever possible...
...surely as it has influenced Vietnamese society, the war has extended its influence to American society, to this University. Students yesterday confronted the issue close to home: on their own campus. Their demonstration will not, as some enthusiasts claimed in the corridors of Mallinckrodt, stop the "war machine." Sit-ins are not votes, and campus confrontations hardly persuade nominating conventions. But students who are appalled at what the war is doing to this country must begin to act somewhere. Challenging its encroachments on their campus is a proper...
...like this country the way it is now," Mumma said, "but I'm going to stick with it. There's only one thing to do--resist. We've got to stop this war, we've got to change this country's foreign policy, we've got to change the way universities work...