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Police alerted Daniel J. Hayes Jr., Mayor of Cambridge who sped to police headquarters and took personal charge of a raid on the premises. As part of his war against hippies, Hayes has promised to keep an all night vigil in anticipation of sueth raids from now until...
Vitamins for the Vigil. Thieu was measured and conciliatory in his reply, offering to bring Tarn Chau and Tri Quang together to mediate what the government regarded as an internal Buddhist quarrel. But Tri Quang refused to meet with Tarn Chau under any conditions created by the government. Instead, dismissing his followers, he settled his robes for an indefinite protest vigil underneath a tree in front of the palace. Each night followers brought fresh changes of robes and food, tea, milk, vitamins, dextrose mixed with water and aspirin. The palace guards permitted Tri Quang to use their gate toilet...
According to a district supervisor of the MBTA who was standing vigil at the Square during rush-hour yesterday, the buses are having no trouble with the new system. But the passengers are somewhat less pleased. "For 15 or 20 years the Belmont bus has left from that spot right there," one irritated passenger said, "and now I haven't any idea how to find...
Archbishop Joseph Francis Rummel of New Orleans excommunicated three Roman Catholics who opposed his decision to desegregate the city's Roman Catholic schools. Asked in 1962 by Martin Luther King to join in a prayer vigil at Albany, Ga., 75 Protestant, Jewish and Catholic clergymen and laymen submitted to arrest and jail for praying on behalf of desegregation. In 1963, more than 200 clergymen were arrested for taking part in picket lines and demonstrations. Hundreds of clergymen joined the Civil Rights March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom...
...Tactics for the short-run. The methods of action are all aimed at quick results or quick impact, such as the sit-in, the picket line, strike, march, vigil, teach-in or other forms of mass demonstration. The preparation of big programs, the conduct of prolonged negotiations, the organization of an extensive educational program, the establishment of an organization to exert constant pressure, are all avoided. The tactics can be described as "instantism." There is a chiliastic aspect--a dramatic action to be followed expectantly by dramatic reulsts. Here again there is a parallel to syndicalism and the I.W.W...