Word: vigilants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lost their only means of influencing Harvard admissions policy. Blacks are going to have to come to grips with their powerlessness in both alumni and faculty quarters. While it is not blacks's exclusive responsibility to go out and recruit, it is incumbent upon them to reinitiate an active vigil over Harvard admissions. If black students neglect this responsibility there is nobody else to carry it out for them...
...driver, I was surprised that so few whites had volunteered to aid the American Indian Movement. A news conference was beginning as I wormed my way through the tight security. (AIM leaders fear that the government has infiltrated their ranks; they keep a 24-hour-a-day vigil at the defense headquarters...
Chanting "Chile, Greek, Who is next?" about 100 anti-Greek junta demonstrators yesterday maintained a night-long vigil in front of the Greek consulate in Boston...
...Cuban freighter Imias has been swinging idly at anchor between two locks in the Panama Canal since Oct. 3. Throughout that tune a U.S. Zone policeman hi a tiny launch has circled the ship with unceasing vigilance. The bizarre scene is part of an international legal tangle that involves money, politics, diplomacy, a violent coup, and howls from all sides directed at the U.S. and the federal judge who is responsible for the launch's vigil...
Extraordinary Session. Meanwhile a curious vigil was being mounted in Albert's anteroom. In the Senate, Barry Goldwater and Minority Leader Hugh Scott had got wind of the extraordinary session, and came over to sit outside Albert's office as a visible gesture of moral support for Agnew. They had to leave before the Vice President came out, but Agnew later phoned his thanks to Scott. "It was generous of you and Barry," he said. "These are the kinds of things that don't go unnoticed...