Word: union
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...since the "bring the boys home" hysteria at the end of World War II, which resulted at least in part in the Soviet Union's success in shunting millions of people from Nazi occupation to Communist occupation, has there been such a deliberate and dishonest play on the emotions of the American people...
Thomas Block, director of the A. U. student political union, estimated that 3000 students have already been placed on campus and added that if the administration does not make more space available soon, students might seize a building...
Lonely Dissenter. Solzhenitsyn's dismissal was an inevitable conclusion to his long, often lonely, campaign for intellectual freedom in the Soviet Union. Since the Russian publication in 1962 of his first novel, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, he has been marked as a dissenter. While a handful of other Russian writers fled to the West, he remained determined to stay and work for the cause of literary freedom in the Soviet Union. In 1967 he angered the apparatchiki with his famous letter to the Fourth Congress of Soviet Writers, in which he condemned "the no longer...
...action against Solzhenitsyn will not be final until ratification of the ouster by the Executive Committee of the Union of Soviet Writers. Since some of the writers on the executive committee oppose the ouster, Solzhenitsyn's case may well turn into an important test in the struggle against literary repression in Russia...
...University of Wyoming, 14 blacks were dismissed from the football team after protesting an upcoming game with Brigham Young University. Reason: Brigham Young is affiliated with the Mormon Church, which bans Negroes from church offices. Now the Black Students Union at the University of Arizona has demanded that Brigham Young be expelled from the Western Athletic Conference. Similar discontent is spreading among other black athletes, who presented assorted demands and staged protests at Indiana University, the University of Washington and the University of Minnesota...