Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Faculty vote will allow the Instrumentation and Lincoln Labs to continue with much of their defense work, but will require that they seek government and private support for research on civilian and social problems...
...interesting thing about your editorial "End the War: Support the NLF" is that it is not anti-war or anti-interventionist...
...imply that countries should support movements of "national liberation" as you define them, but that America tries to suppress them: You presumably would approve of active support for the NLF, that is intervention by states which agree with you that the "NLF substantially represents the South Vietnamese people." So while you say that you "reject not only the methods of American intervention but the goals," you really reject only the goals. You are not against intervention, that is against America's methods. You are looking for a method to "best support" the NLF, and the anti-war movement happens...
This neo-interventionist position is a familiar one for Americans. U.S. support of Saigon students and dissident Buddhists who wanted to overthrow Diem in 1963, made the U.S. responsible for a series of weak successor regimes and drew the U.S. further and further into this damned morass. The inglorious arguments that you despise, i.e. that this war is too costly and not in America's interest, would have had us out of Vietnam...
...PROPOSITION, a political, musical, musical, satirical, and, occasionally, mechanical review in Inman Square, has been in operation since February, 1968. That's a long time, and given what theater audiences seem to support, it may be a dubious distinction. But as their ads say, "1,250,364 laughs can't be wrong...