Word: pl
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dick was a leader of the non-PL left at Harvard. That group began as the New Left caucus of SDS; became, after the SDS split, the November Action Coalition, and then last year, after Dick had left, the Radcliffe-Harvard Liberation Alliance...
Said one Harvard senior a few weeks ago: "What happened was that everyone from the upper class joined PL [Progressive Labor party] and all the middle-class kids joined NAC [heir to the old SDS New Left caucus] or became Weathermen. Now the rich kids are going out to the factories and the middle-class ones are going to become doctors and lawyers. The revolution does seem far away...
...bombing provoked a torrent of critical reactions on campus-much of it from student radicals. NAC condemned the bombing on tactical grounds, as did SDS and PL, who chanted "Mass Actions, Not Mad Bombings." Most students and Faculty were unanimous in their denunciation of the bombing, and a Young Americans for Freedom rally in protest against the bombing drew more than 200 people...
...majority of the checks paid to the Boston arm of the National Peace Action Coalition (NPAC) by the members of SDS-PL had payment stopped on them by the signers from one to three days after the checks were submitted. Two checks were returned for insufficient funds and one SDS member, who has been tentatively identified as a student at Northeastern, opened an account at the Harvard Trust Company the same day on which he paid out a total of $270 in worthless checks to NPAC...
...which range from $18 to $180, were submitted to NPAC in payment for train and bus tickets to Washington. John Finnan, Office Manager for NPAC in Boston, said last night that several bus captains had identified at least 12 persons on the trip to Washington as members of SDS-PL...