Word: groups
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Urbana Onward, a conference sponsored jointly by the Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Fellowship and the Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship (IVCF), a nationwide umbrella organization for Christian student groups, focused on Bible study, practical discussions about becoming a missionary and group prayer...
...later said his staff had been "unanimous" in wanting "to do everything we could to help." On Nov. 10 the five Americans who had worked in the consular section showed up at the Canadian embassy. It was not until Nov. 22 that the sixth American, Schatz, also joined the group. He had escaped the siege because his office was outside the embassy compound. He had since been staying with "friends...
Most statesmen agree that history suggests that the best chance for peace is massive preparedness. General Matthew Ridgway, 84, our Korean commander and later Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, stood straight and proud before a group in Pittsburgh the other day and said that the trouble with all the war talk is that we do not have the hardware to carry out our intentions...
...only on the surface. For one thing, the draft card was a facsimile; nobody could find the genuine article, which the Government stopped issuing in 1976. For another, the protesters were outnumbered by students who had gathered near by to be entertained by a mime and a punk-rock group. And on the fringes of the antidraft crowd, Joseph Taylor, a black graduate student in psychology, voiced a view that would hardly have been heard at Berkeley during the Viet Nam War. Said he: "This is a sincere effort on the part of the students, but they are not seeing...
Across the country, Americans last week were debating the same question. The participants included some of the leading antiwar activists of the Viet Nam War years. At a rally at Stanford, Daniel Ellsberg urged the students to "mutiny" against draft registration. At Harvard, Nobel Laureate George Wald urged a group of protesters to "take control of your lives. Learn to say no to what you know is wrong." In Philadelphia, the Central...