Word: ued
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...allows for many awakenings: we can cast our gaze on specific events and time periods out of the totality of our existence and relate to them holistically; we can take our souls into the past and walk through the "hallowed halls of Harvard" and out of them into the U. S. A. of the late nineteenth century, as Martin R. Delany, William Monroe Trotter, or W. E. B. DuBois. In our old selves we will meet some of the same ghostly notions in white that haunt our lives today. Squinting is natural at first, but soon we see, and when...
...Yale, 2500 people gathered in Woolsey Hall to hear former AttorneyGeneral Ramsey Clark call for immediate withdrawal of U. S. troops from South Vietnam. Other anti-war speakers at the Yale teach-in included Averill Harriman, former U. S. Ambassador to the Paris peace talks...
McCarthy warned, "If we do not draw the line on using U. S. troops in Vietnam and Laos, there will be no reason for us to stop short of China, and maybe even all the way to Moscow...
...professor Noam Chomsky, the final official speaker, said, "In 20 years, the U. S. has not swerved from its goal of dominating Southeast Asia." He said the danger of American subjugation of the area is even more ominous now because of the recent discovery of oil off the Vietnam coast...
Throughout the conference, a major dispute was between people who wanted to make immediate withdrawal of U. S. troops from Southeast Asia the main focus for the antiwar movement, and those who wanted the antiwar movement to join in the struggle of workingclass revolutionaries to overthrow capitalism in the United States...