Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact, deliberately played up his sympathy with Roxbury in order to maximize his drawing power in the black community. Since the blacks account for only 15 per cent of Boston's electorate, they alone could not put him in office, and what is politically incredible is the support he found in lily-white precincts where Hicks coasted to victory. For example, in Allston, hardly expected to be an Atkins stronghold, he ran second to Hicks in almost every precinct...
...will be "tortured and slaughtered" if the United States were to suddenly withdraw from South Vietnam. Nor will we accept responsibility for the betrayal of the brave young men who have served the cause of freedom- and even died for it- while asking no more in return than moral support from the American people...
...demonstration against the embassy was organized by a number of more radical groups-including the Youth Against War and Facism, the Weathermen faction of SDS, and the Yippies-who do not support Saturday's mass march organized by the New Mobilization...
Three hundred combat-equipped federal paratroopers moved into the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service Building next door at noon before today's demonstration in support of the Chicago Eight. Two dozen marines guarded the Capitol today, and Washington police were especially stationed in front of foreign embassies and ambassadors' homes...
Some Haryard professors have cancelled classes in observance of the moratorium, but there is no indication that support here will be as strong as that during the October 15 moratorium...