Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Diosdado Macapagal raised it during his election campaign in 1961. It remained a relatively minor issue until this summer when President Ferdinand Marcos seized on it as a handy way to win votes for next year's national elections. In what appears to have been a bid for support from the 3,000,000 Moslems living in the southern parts of the archipelago, Marcos dredged up the issue and signed a congressional bill asserting Philippine sovereignty over Sabah. The Philippine Moslems, who are mostly underprivileged and poor, would like access to Sabah's prospering economy. They also feel...
...Several thousand aroused students attended a meeting to organize a protest movement. Opposed to any strong central authority, even in their own cause, they split into small groups, and their organizational meetings degenerated into bickering over goals and tactics. The rebels might have been able to marshal more support if they had faced an unreceptive administration. But Heyns readily agreed to meet with the protesters and expressed his concern about the regents' anti-Cleaver decision-although he also warned that he would not tolerate any campus disorder...
...current case, Heyns' stand against political interference earned faculty support. His open-door policy of reasonable dialogue disarmed the dissidents and won broad student sympathy. His crackdown on the sit-in demonstrators pleased the regents without antagonizing the moderate majority of students. The radicals might yet find a way to use the unresolved Cleaver case to inflame the university. But the encouraging point of the restraint at Berkeley-reinforced by rejections of confrontation politics this fall at N.Y.U. and Columbia-may be a growing student awareness that change can be more quickly achieved by cooperating with tolerant administrators than...
...against what they considered a racial slight, the 400 black ministers attending the meeting stalked out of the Gateway and finished their convention in an Episcopal church. The incident typified not only the touchy militancy of the conference but, in general, the mood of Negro Christian clergymen who enthusiastically support the contemporary secular demand for Black Power. Black caucuses have been formed within most of the major denominations to lobby for greater Negro participation in ecclesiastical decision making...
...many others. Since Helmsing's blast, 66 journalists from other U.S. Catholic publications have signed a statement of intellectual support for the N.C.R. Though 1,090 subscriptions have been canceled, the paper has gained 3,849 new subscribers...