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Such men could hardly be expected to hear the hum of machinery that was changing their world, the increasingly impudent demands of the newly prosperous middle classes, even the crash of anarchist bombs. Says Tuchman: "So enchanting was the vision of a stateless society, without government, without law, without ownership of property, in which, corrupt institutions having been swept away, man would be free to be good as God intended him, that six heads of state were assassinated for its sake in the 20 years before 1914. Not one could qualify as a tyrant. Their deaths were the gestures...
...shown a deep religious sensitivity and an interest in pacifism. He had tried to join a Trappist monastery, but was rejected as too young. Later, he spent a year as a student in a Vermont seminary. Since 1963, LaPorte had served as a part-time volunteer with the radically anarchist and pacifist Catholic Worker movement, to which David Miller, the jailed draft-card burner, also belongs. Other volunteers recalled him as devout and quiet, a normally cheerful youth who drank, smoked and dated occasionally...
...Thumbs. The town of Homestead settled into a state of siege regularly interrupted by violence. An anarchist from New York, Alexander Berkman, inflamed by newspaper accounts of the strike, came to Homestead determined to assassinate Frick; one day he managed to pump two shots into the mighty magnate, but Frick survived. Eight thousand Pennsylvania National Guardsmen bivouacked in the town under a general who was sympathetic to management; for expressing an anti-Frick sentiment, one soldier was strung up by the thumbs. When Frick imported scab labor under armed guard, the strikers poisoned their food; at least three died...
Scottish Student Jailed in Spain--An 18-year-old student from Scotland, Stuart Christie, was sentenced earlier this month to 20 years in jail by a military court in Spain for "terrorist activities" against the regime of Francisco Franco. The student, a self-proclaimed anarchist, was arrested while hitchhiking to Madrid with a knapsack full of plastic explosives. Christie's mother watched the trial, commented laconically: "I don't think it would be taken so seriously back home ... he is very young...
Also, considering the general student apathy towards the Council, it is possible that an anarchist slate of candidates advocating the end of student government altogether might receive considerable support in such an election, especially from upperclassmen...