Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...pursue two directions at once," explained Brown. "We're going to take this thing to the courts, and we've also got to gather community support for our position, and take it back to the City Council, and force them to do something...
...guidelines for corporate virtuousness," Allison said. "Yet the Treasurer and the Corporation make such judgments every day. At least in the case of front-page news like proxy votes, there's no obvious strategy that avoids conflict. Not even symbolic neutrality, because an abstention is just considered a mild support of management...
Across the street from the courthouse, the Presbyterian church serves as a center of community support. On the evening of the second day of the trial, Attorney William Kunstler spoke to a crowd of 700 in the church hall. Of the defendants and their action he said...
Student activists readily admit they are a minority of the university population, which numbers some 30,000 in Saigon alone. But they insist that they can remain out of prison and continue the struggle only because of crucial support from less militant classmates- support which has been readily demonstrated in recent months. Moreover, many of the current leaders are themselves recent converts to the cause...
Nevertheless, the young university leaders have no illusions about the enormous risks they are running. For they are challenging men whose power and influence depend on prolonged fighting. Sooner or later, Thieu, with American logistical support, will attempt to suppress dissension by physically liquidating its leadership. Still, the student peace advocates insist that regardless of any short-term success by the government in repressing their movement, new people will come to the foreground. Ultimately, they assure you, an independent peace will and must come...