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...second Day of Rage, Chicago was still there. The Weatherman publicity man had left town, and their nicely structured itinerary was shot to hell. Their withdrawal in search of tactics, oddly enough, became an effective tactic by itself. Perhaps the most important element of music is its silences-the rests between notes. The Weathermen continued to wrench the mind of the press by doing nothing...
...last Weatherman is passing the television cameras, one of the cameramen trips...
SINCE last April all factions of SDS have reaffirmed their commitment to the use of violence of the hit-and-run or the more sustained and organized variety. While a hand-out signed by five members of HR SDS condemned the Weatherman raid on the Center for International Affairs, it endorsed the use of violence under other circumstances. The authors argued that the substantive accomplishments of last April were achieved only through violence: "SDS supports the use of violence by oppressed people against the bosses to win just demands. We leaflet and talk to large numbers of students and workers...
...Hyland is nothing less than candid. He spells out the strategy for us. "The Weatherman attack on the CFIA," he writes, "made the subsequent Guided Tour much more palatable." On that occasion, rudeness and insolence toward teachers, contemptuous flouting of the rights of fellow students, disorderly and potentially dangerous behavior-all things that would have been severely and properly punished-suddenly became acceptable. The victims of this abuse found solace in the thought that it could have been worse; and they were joined in this by their colleagues, who found further comfort in the hope or assumption that this kind...
...Hyland make a distinction between property and persons: bomb buildings only after 5, he writes, when the people who work there are more likely to have gone home. Similarly, many students and faculty have comforted themselves with the thought that the Harvard-Radcliffe SDS have condemned the Weatherman assault on the CFIA an act of violence against working people. Yet there is nothing in the morality of Mr. Hyland or the local SDS that assures such thoughtful discrimination in the future. When the time is right-when, to use Mr. Hyland's jargon, a "combination of possibilities and a progressive...