Word: obstructionist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is no indication in this statement, nor in the opinions and actions of the vast majority of students during the remainder of the school year, that reconstruction or revolution in the University structure is a serious goal. No student has yet defied the Dow julgment with similar obstructionist tactics, despite the Administration's refusal to spell out guidelines on unacceptable demonstrations and their consequences. Dow was primarily a symbolic protest aimed against the Vietnam horror and against the unresponsiveness of established authority to anti-war demands. The students' basic target was the war, not the University...
DESPITE the obstructionist tactics of France (which is generally opposed to the change, but, if it should occur, wishes to be part of a board regulating the granting of SDR's--an annoying and arrogant, if not illogical, position), the SDR will probably be approved by the fixed proportion of IMF members. It could be in effect as early as next year...
Right now things can be done, whatever the protestor's depth of feeling against the war: draft resistance, obstructionist demonstrations, planning a reception for Dow at Harvard, working for McCarthy, canvassing neighborhoods. The fast, according to its leaders, is meant to prepare the fasters to act. This focus is inappropriate and anachronistic...
...decision and recommendations by the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice, juveniles are emerging from legal limbo. For years they were handled under a system that was supposed to treat youths almost like psychiatric patients, a theory that made procedural safeguards seem obstructionist. As it turned out, the system commonly punished acts, like using obscene language, that are rarely considered crimes when committed by adults...
...said she had planned neither the vigil nor the interviews to be disruptive or obstructionist. "We simply want to remind people that this company is the government's principal supplier of napalm...