Word: ued
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...called "activist" wing of the Center for International Affairs, an on-campus institute that performs independent research on foreign policy issues. Funded primarily by the Ford Foundation and the United Nations Development Group, the DAS advises governments of underdeveloped countries on economic matters. It has no connection with the U. S. government...
Leftist students and Faculty members have criticized the DAS on the grounds that its operations, while neither sponsored nor sanctioned by the U. S. government, have invariably aided the economic interests of American corporations who do business abroad...
...Neill mailed a questionnaire to each of the 150,000 households in the district, which includes all or part of Allston, Brighton, Brookline, Charlestown, East Boston, Cambridge, and Somerville. Released results include most of the 20,000 responses. Cambridge's results showed that 88 per cent favored U. S. withdrawal from Vietnam according to a fixed timetable and 56 per cent favored legalization of marijuana. Other results showed that...
...overwhelming majority of voters everywhere in the district favors requiring the President to seek permission of Congress before committing U. S. troops to the defense of another country...
...many shattered windows in nearby buildings are now boarded up that one high administration official ruefully calls the institution "Old Plywood U." Nevertheless, the administrators ironically find comfort in the bombing. They believe that it is the peak of long years of frustration that began with the Dow Chemical demonstrations in 1967. The revulsion it will cause among students and faculty, they think, may help reforge understanding between them...