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...should be represented. Donovan gave up, ordered the school reopened and gave its principal the right to assign the challenged teachers to non-classroom chores. With that, Shanker called for a strike. Only 8,000 of the U.F.T.'s 55,000 members bothered to vote to approve a walkout, but most of them dutifully stayed away from class. A U.F.T. rally outside City Hall drew a surprising 40,000 supporters, who paraded with signs and cheered Shanker's hysterical statement: "We are not about to let our schools be taken over by Nazi types and gangsters...
...began making plans for further community services. Then, in 1965, the Filipino grape pickers in the Delano area spontaneously went out on strike. The National Farm Workers were unprepared for the move, with only $52.50 in the union treasury, but voted anyway to join the Filipinos in a massive walkout of some 5000 grape pickers...
...Brighter Day. The conference simply brushed the Cohn-Bendit walkout aside. Said Italy's Umberto Marzocchi, the occasional chairman (the anarchists' anti-authoritarian philosophy, of course, would have made any more permanent leadership intolerable): "The youth who walked out think that revolution is synonymous with insurrection. They are deluded." The anarchists finally agreed on one thing: that the conference had been a grand success. They proposed to meet again in Paris in 1971 to celebrate the centenary of the Paris Commune. In hopes for better days ahead, of course. "When capitalism crumbles, Communism crumbles with it," mused Maurice...
...images of Chicago will haunt the Democrats during the campaign. Even if they can hang together through November (they did, after all, avoid a major walkout of factions, as happened in 1948), large groups within the party remain deeply and ideologically, disaffected. Facing a confident and smoothly organized G.O.P., the Democrats must shoulder the voters' discontent with the incumbents...
...ready to recall. As mayor of Minneapolis at the age of 34 (he is 57 now), he cleaned up the police force, reduced crime and upgraded schools. He risked everything for principle when he forced a strong civil rights plank on a reluctant Democratic Convention in 1948, prompting a walkout by Strom Thurmond's Dixiecrats. He showed foresight when he crusaded for Medicare 15 years before it became law and proposed a Peace Corps nine months before it was established. His peace credentials, validated in the struggle for enactment of the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, were always gilt-edged?...