Word: subverters
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...most accusatory summations were drawn by Lowell Weicker and Sam Ervin. Weicker, clearly outraged at what he considered continuing Nixon Administration connivance in trying to "grossly" subvert its political foes, including himself (see page 15), erupted in the week's most impassioned oratory. Scathingly, he launched into a litany of what he called "proven or admitted" crimes committed by the Executive Branch of the Government...
...began by reciting a veritable litany of "illegal, unconstitutional and gross" acts performed by the Executive branch since the beginning of the 1972 campaign. Then he came to his main point: that the Administration had done its level best to subvert the Ervin committee hearings as recently as this April, even while announcing publicly its intention of cooperating fully...
...Vietnam during a series of coups in the middle sixties. Upon reaching power, he consolidated his control, streamlining the repressive apparatus of the old Diem regime. Backed by the American government, Thieu has tossed tens of thousands of political prisoners into his teeming jails and done everything possible to subvert the January peace agreements...
...Government's legal argument seemed to be based on the concept that "a dissident domestic organization is akin to an unfriendly foreign power and must be dealt with in the same fashion." On the contrary, said Keith, even the attempts of domestic organizations to attack and subvert the existing structure of Government become criminal only when they are carried out "through unlawful means, such as the invasion of the rights of others by use of force or violence...
...UNIVERSITY'S policy as a shareholder, along with most of its other policies, should be democratically determined. When Harvard owns part of companies that prop racist regimes in Africa, or supply the wherewithal for killing Vietnamese, or fail to provide for the safety of their workers, or subvert democracy in this country by spending large sums of their shareholders' money, all the members of the University are implicated. And all the members of the University therefore have the responsibility -- and ought to have the power -- to find out about such practices and to see that they stop...