Word: teodoru
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Dates: during 1971-1971
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...only teach-in speaker who managed to speak, for example, evinced little interest in bringing the disruption to an end. In Friday night's emotional scenario, there was a chance that most of the disrupters would have left or stopped disrupting if events had been less provocative. Dan Teodoru obviously did not desire this; indeed, he baited the crowd and dared them to continue-and used more obscenities and insults than any of the disrupters. Had he begun making his prepared speech and tried to make himself heard, the crowd might have responded better than it did to being called...
Unlike Droge, Dan Teodoru, Eastern Director for the National Student Coordinating Committee, urged continued heavy American military involvement in Southeast Asia. "We have to show that as a great power we are going to stop the Communist advance. That is the issue for the rest of the world and for America," he said...
...Teodoru discounted questions of the morality of the war, preferring to consider its pragmatic aspects. "The rest of the world will see how the United States fulfills its commitments," he said. "They do not question the wisdom of the commitment. They recognize the mistakes of the U.S., but are more concerned with how it rectifies those mistakes in achieving its goal...
...unidentified long-haired young man then mounted the platform and took the microphone from Teodoru and called for "ten minutes of silence for the Vietnamese people." The man later told reporters, "I'm not going to tell you anything...
After silently bickering with Teodoru and McCarty for ten minutes about how much time he had, the man left the podium. By that time the meeting had been cancelled...