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Said one Harvard senior a few weeks ago: "What happened was that everyone from the upper class joined PL [Progressive Labor party] and all the middle-class kids joined NAC [heir to the old SDS New Left caucus] or became Weathermen. Now the rich kids are going out to the factories and the middle-class ones are going to become doctors and lawyers. The revolution does seem far away...
During the year before, no less than four major protests had made a target of the CFIA. In September 1969, a group of about 20 Weathermen invaded the Center, painting slogans on its walls and roughing up several of its members. Two weeks later, the November Action Coalition led a group of about 250 students on a noisy "tour" of the building. The following April, NAC sponsored a demonstration which entered the Center and broke up a meeting of its Visiting Committee. And a month afterward, another group organized by NAC held a "mill-in" on the CFIA's second...
...hastened-characteristically-to qualify this judgment, however. "I don't want to imply that I'm morally superior to the Weathermen-I'm certainly not as courageous and maybe not as sincere. But that doesn't make them right, necessarily...
...simply false to imply-as this letter does-that all those who walked out of the 1069 SDS convention became Weathermen. Members of NAC and other radical groups were also among those who left. [It is unfair and opportunist-though not altogether surprising-that these people are all branded Weathermen-"crazies...
...characterizes the split in SDS in the spring of 1969 as between worker-student alliance proponents and the SDS national leadership, who believed "that students should demonstrate in support of the NLF." This is a pretty dishonest characterization of the people who became the Weathermen...