Word: ued
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...streets. So when we Americans make movies with radical points of view, we aim to reach the masses. Make it so they can understand it, we say. Well, what do they understand? Oh, Grapes of Wrath. Salt of the Earth. On the Waterfront, Catch 22, Or, Hunger: U. S. A. Maybe, Newsreel, Sure, it looks like Hollywood. Sure it looks like CBS. But then Hollywood and CBS reach a lot of people...
Between September 1967 and May 1970, the survey showed, the percentage of colleges experiencing protests rose from six to 14 per cent. In May, following the American invasion of Cambodia and killings of students in Ohio and Mississippi, demonstrations spread to 32 per cent of all U. S. colleges...
...demonstration, marching for the independence of Puerto Rico from the United States, hoped to bring a massive group of Puerto Ricans to the United Nations building to demand immediate independence of their homeland, withdrawal of U. S. military forces and nuclear arms for the island, and freedom for the political prisoners involved in independence struggles. October 30 was chosen as the date of the march, commemorating the twentieth anniversary of one such struggle, in which 25 Puerto Ricans were killed, 37 were taken prisoner, and over a thousand were wounded by Americans forces...
...juxtaposition of U. S. and Puerto Rican flags is painfully symbolic to many Puerto Ricans. A song in Spanish, started by someone toward the end of the march and joined by almost everyone nearby, translates...
MANY Americans-including perhaps the lady who stood at her window, defying taunts and boos, to wave her U. S. flag at Friday's march-find it difficult to understand why anyone would want independence from their country. The British must have felt the same way once; and the comparison is not empty. Puerto Ricans pay taxes to the United States of America and they are obliged to serve in her army; Puerto Rico's laws are made ultimately by the United States Congress, to which the island has one non-voting representative. A United Nations resolution requires all countries...