Word: ued
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cent who answered that "adequate social reform" cannot "be achieved in the U. S. without the use of violence" reflect a hard core of militant radicalism. Those who answered that violence must be used to achieve adequate social reform preferred the NLF 3 to 1 over the Thicu-Ky regime even though the class as a whole preferred a Thicu-Ky victory...
...U. S. Grant used to stop at Low-dermilk's bookstore in the afternoon to browse, and Teddy Roosevelt ordered volumes on wildlife there. The more literate Congressmen and Senators prowled among its shelves. Sometimes their own books found their way back into Lowdermilk's massive stocks. The store in downtown Washington had volumes bearing the senior Henry Cabot Lodge's bookplate, the Ex Libris of Speakers of the House, even that of Davy Crockett, the Tennessee Congressman who died at the Alamo...
...state today, even one as far removed from the actual conflict as Morocco, can afford to be too warm in its relations with the United States in these times." That point was made even more clearly in Tunis, where some 2,000 screaming students staged a five-hour anti-U.S. demonstration on the day of Rogers' arrival...
Thursday, 600 feet of film, tapes and journals they had collected for a book to be published by Simon and Schuster and left with a Canadian professor were confiscated by U. S. customs when the professor tried to bring them over the border. Brigade members claim they themselves were harassed, and much of their literature and souvenirs confiscated, when they crossed the border from Canada last week at Calais, Maine...
...ignoring what America thinks of the war. Richard Nixon knows how rotten the war is and probably wants it over as fervently as SMC. All this hassle, dissension, and international embarrassment is certainly too high a price to pay for the rubber and oil profits that rebounded to U. S. companies in the pre-Viet Minh days. But the victory of an indigenous, non-white guerrilla army over the United States military machine would establish a precedent that could be disastrous for American corporations around the world. Richard Nixon's meticulous understanding of the power dynamics of American politics inclines...