Word: threats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deplore the closing of any building at M.I.T." the statement continued. "We oppose the use or the threat of the use of violence as a means for the promotion of change within the university...
Four of the projects deal with applied weapons research-the Multiple Independently-targeted Re-entry Vchicle (MIRV), the ABM, the Moving Target Indicator, and the Helicopter Project. MIRV is an attempt to develop a first-strike nuclear capability. The U.S. could use the threat of this capability to aid its foreign policy. Both MIRV and ABM are enormous subsidies to the defense industries, and as such point to the distorted priorities of American corporate capitalism...
Today's disruptions will be temporary and nonviolent. The threat of the demonstrations is to the political activity of M.I.T., not to its existence. Similarly, tomorrow's militant picket line around the Instrumentation Labs is not an attempt to prevent any future use of the labs...
...Harvard whipped Penn soundly, and last week the Tigers could only place four men in the top ten finishers. They must do better this afternoon if they expect to pose any sort of a realistic threat to Harvard's 31-meet undefeated string...
Yale, who usually poses the stronger threat in the meet, was decimated by graduation, losing quality men in Steve Bittner and Frank Shorter. Junior Karl Fields is the only runner of consequence at New Haven, and the best he can hope for may be a finish...