Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pite of the lack of complete support from "freedom-loving Americans," our forces in R.V.N. have transformed that country into a viable nation slowly growing to the stage where it can hold its own against the" terrorists from the North. Viet Nam was a defeat for this country's civilians, not for our armed forces...
These highly dubious categories and percentages came to life as Blaine presented "the battle plan of the SDS." which amounted to little more than his interpretation of last April at Harvard. "First." he said. "a cause is found which has some support already among the students . . . Then, ostensibly to force action on the issue from the administration, a building is seized. The actual purpose of the seizure is to provoke violence and cause some blood to be shed . . . all the discontented students [then] rally against the apparent perpetrators of the violence and a number of the conformist students also...
Neither the list of demands nor the decision to wait until December to act was supported by a faction within Afro called Black Students for Action. At an SDS meeting last night the minority group announced plans for an obstructive sit-in in support of their own list of demands today in Wiggins' office...
...march had very little active support from Washington officialdom. Sen. Eugene McCarthy (D-Minn.), Sen, George S. McGovern (D-S. D.), and Sen Charles E. Goodell (R-N. Y.) were the only Congressmen to speak at the rally...
...legislative aide sat me down and told me how his Congressman had supported the October Moratorium. He then told me that thirty days was not enough time for the President to change his views, and thus he could not support this November action. When I explained to him that Congressmen themselves could do something about the war, he laughed in my face. I didn't think it was funny...