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...took to their hearts the husband-wife team of Vyacheslav Gordeyev and Nadezhda Pavlova. But Grigorovich's choreography only came in for more lumps. Then there were the defections. Grigorovich returned to Moscow more embattled than ever. He is well connected in the bureaucracy, but his company faces stricter KGB surveillance and curtailed foreign travel...
Houthakker added that the cure for the problem was to be found in stricter monetary policy, which would produce some unemployment, but not at an unacceptable level...
...fellow of the Center for International Affairs and author of the The Politics of Nonviolence, a 900-page history of the technique, sat down with 30 CDAS supporters a few weeks four-hour bull session that ranged from the mindlessly specific ("what about small boltcutters?") to the vaguely grand. Stricter non-violence was more effective, Sharp said, than the tactics planned for the 24th. Not more moral, or more Christian, or more in tune with nature, but more effective...
...some ways, the call for strict non-violence and the CDAS philosophy begin from different bases. A stricter approach to non-violence has the goal of building a bigger movement through example. The handbook decries "past civil disobedience demonstrations organized by the anti-nuclear movement" for having as "their main purpose the raising of the nuclear issue in the minds of the public." On May 24th, the handbook continues, "our success will not be measured in terms of symbolic value, media impact, nor numbers of arrests. Our success will be apparent by the extent we can effectively, non-violently...
...comes naturally after failure; perhaps there is a real chance next week for a joyful, peaceful, effective fence-cutting operation. But the image of the fence, the cop on one side and the demonstrator on the other, both scared, both angry, fighting each other, returns. Those who opt for stricter nonviolence--those who climb the fence, without helmets and gas masks, those who lie in the road and wait to be dragged away--may pay a higher price. The protesters who trek to Seabrook next week must decide if victory is worth the cost...