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THIS WAS the first time anyone had ever used police on this campus on any large scale to suppress dissent (a couple of campus cops had once chased a few people out of the Union who were sleeping there), and the city and state police had always avoided the campus. Erwin seemed to be trying to goad the students into a riot (but we're such a docile bunch that we never responded-besides, his side had all the guns). When the first big cypress fell, he raised his hands up, clapped, and cheered. To the students he said...
...trying to do, Mr. Hyland? You must remember that we are in the midst of a class struggle and no side is going to make any concessions, least of all the establishment (or whatever term you radicals call it by) and they are not going to fail to suppress any threats that affect them vitally. Suppose than that your kind of terrorism had certain results which did affect the ruling class. What would happen? They would retaliate and upon the group that is most vulnerable and yet most crucial to the struggle-the people Mr. Hyland has in mind...
...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...
...magician a violent fag the staff of a private detective agency-affirms Truffaut's positive belief in the uniqueness of every human individual. Institutions-such as the institution for juvenile delinquency in The Four Hundred Blows the System in Fahren?eit 451 and the army in stolen Kisses -which suppress this uniqueness are Truffaut's real enemies...
...admit defeat. An American withdrawal might have been possible in 1961, or in 1963, but once the decision to intervene on a massive scale was taken, the war took on a new character. American intervention has transformed the Vietnam conflict into a crucial test of American capacity to suppress movements of national liberation. Before Vietnam. it was not at all certain that even a substantially united people could defeat the concentrated power of the United States. The success of the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese has shown that the United States does not have the strength to deliver...