Word: spokesmen
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...addition, University spokesmen stated yesterday that the possibility of filing criminal charges against four non-students alleged to have taken part in the demonstration and "reported to have been prominent in other disruptive activity in the Boston area" is under "active consideration...
University spokesmen claimed yesterday that Bowie had charged the 20 students according to "all the instances revealed by evidence available." They added that any other newly introduced evidence would lead to further charges...
...protest but they are not heard." Douglas is a firm believer in the sanctity of the law, and he does not call for extralegal political activities, as some of his detractors have suggested he has. But he does recognize that "where grievances pile high and most of the elected spokesmen represent the Establishment, violence may be the only effective response." Douglas is a staunch defender of democratic institutions, and he shares the concern of Edmund Burke, that the State reform in order to preserve...
Inviting Criticism. Douglas' 97-page volume is a broadside. "Violence has no constitutional sanction," he writes, "but where grievances pile high and most of the elected spokesmen represent the Establishment, violence may be the only effective response." England's King George III, Douglas continues, was "the symbol against which our founders made a revolution now considered bright and glorious. We must realize that today's Establishment is the new George III. Whether it will continue to adhere to his tactics, we do not know. If it does, the redress, honored in tradition, is also revolution...
Finally the miners fought back. In mid-February, 1969. Raleigh County miners walked out of their mines and vowed not to go back until a new law had been passed. The picket signs were simple: "No law, no work." Editorials condemned the miners: union spokesmen said the wild?a? strike was being led by "men who haven't mined coal in 20 years" and told the coal operators not to worry: "the boys'll be back on the job tomorrow." Tomorrow came and went and the boys stayed home, more of them every day, until the strike was statewide. Thousands...