Word: countering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...army is "commanded directly by Chairman Mao" and Lin. To outsiders, that seemed an absurdly small clue, but changes of this sort are not made absentmindedly in Peking; analysts believe that Mao is attempting to underscore the party's control of the army. One reason may be to counter speculation in the West that the army has been running everything in China as a result of the chaos caused by Mao's cultural revolution...
...first counter this position by arguing that the university does function politically, willingly or unwillingly, by virtue of the fact that it exists in the world and has effects on it. (This is not to speak of the relations between the university and the government which obtain at a variety of levels.) It is a one-sided conception of polities indeed that allows as political. say, only opponents of the Vietnam war, and reduces the silent and acquiescent to the status of a-political onlookers. One is thrust into a political role in taking part in the world: this...
...Project would use M.I.T. computers for social science research funded by the Defense Department. It has come under radical attack as an alleged aid to counter-revolutionary warfare...
...October 15 Moratorium offers Faculty and students a chance to assess the weight of this feeling, to counter it, and to devise strategies that will not provoke it further-provoke it in other words to the point where renewed bombing of the North and unconditional surrender might become politically attractvie. The idea of the Moratorium admirably recognizes that there are no short-cuts to the work of organizing and education in areas beyond our own enclaves. No faculty vote should be taken on the Resolution at least until we can assimilate the experience of the Moratorium...
...said YAF would also "combat" SDS in public debates. "But the farthest we would go would be maybe to counter-demonstrate." The group has about 12 members now. Pasztner said he is hoping for a "hard core...