Word: moratorium
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...strategy succeeded on Mendelsohn's Moratorium motion. Peter B. Doe-ringer, assistant professor of Economics, proposed an amendment, saying that he agreed with the idea of supporting the Moratorium. but that he did not want to involve the Faculty in political debate...
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...After nearly an hour of discussion, the Faculty approved Doeringer's motion. Then it immediately passed the amended Moratorium resolution by an overwhelming margin...
...Faculty should not spoil its nearly-unanimous feeling about the war by fighting over procedural questions. E. Bright Wilson, Theodore William Richards professor of Chemistry, said that the only way to get an overwhelming vote in favor of the Moratorium was to accept Doeringer's amendment. And Lipset argued that the anti-war resolution would seem to be a failure if 30 or 40 per cent of the Faculty felt compelled to vote against it-even though they support its aims...
...that time, the Faculty had first voted down an endorsement of the October 15 moratorium-apparently because the moratorium was too political an issue-and then had turned around to approve a motion calling for a speedy withdrawal of U. S. forces from Vietnam-a political stand if there ever...